Example sentences for: visibly

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

  • How could the testimony of a man like Chambers, Hiss asked with icy contempt, visibly unkempt, overweight, and "forbiddingly drab" (in Lionel Trilling's phrase), with no style and little personal status, a man who had lived, in Hiss' words, "in the sewers, plotting against his native land," possibly outweigh the simple facts of Hiss' career as Harvard graduate, trusted aide to FDR at Yalta, and one of the architects of the United Nations?

  • Even short hair was eventually acceptable for women, too, but visibly careful grooming was still the rule for fashionable female heads until the last 15 years or so.

  • The LAT , WP and a front-page NYT story cite Clinton's behavior on the tape as the reason for concern: there are times in his testimony when, says the LAT , Clinton "reacted angrily," and is "visibly upset."

  • The Chinese community, backbone of the nation’s economy, carefully rebuilt its commercial interests, this time much less visibly.

  • Stuffed into a three-piece suit that visibly wilts in the course of his decline, Dennehy uses his bulk as his chief dramatic asset.


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