Example sentences for: ostensibly

How can you use “ostensibly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Croatia is ostensibly a democracy, but it has functioned under Tudjman like a semi-fascist dictatorship.

  • (Note: "Life and Art" is an occasional column that compares fiction, in various media, with the real-life facts it is ostensibly based on.)

  • Under current law, such expenditures must be publicly disclosed, and corporations and unions are forbidden to make them (except through PACs, which raise money from employees and members ostensibly on a voluntary basis and have their own set of financial limits).

  • , the balanced-budget amendment and health insurance for poor kids); and 3) disagree sharply even where they ostensibly agree (e.g.

  • Soft money is money donated to and spent by the political parties, ostensibly for reasons other than direct support of candidates, but without limits on who may give or how much.


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