Example sentences for: ostensibly

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

  • Congress is ostensibly fascinated with cyberspace.

  • The piece is ostensibly about Whitewater and the Web Hubbell tapes and the House Democratic counteroffensive vs.

  • Her daughter and Tony's sister, a sleazy ex-hippie named Pavarti, nee Janice, has shown up from Seattle, ostensibly to take care of her mother but more likely to scam off her brother.

  • In 1996, a "tax scheme" was a plan that ostensibly would raise taxes on some people while cutting taxes for others.

  • Modern translingual jeux d'esprit are Mots d'Heures Gousses Rames , by Luis d'Antin von Roote (New York, 1967) in which English masquerades as French; Brigid Brophy, In Transit (London, 1969); and the ultimate: Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegans Wake with their ostensibly English yet polyvalent, transliteral letter and word groups which punningly play over no fewer than fifty to sixty languages in Cheshire-catlike, now-you-see-it-now-you-don't trompes l'oeil .


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