Examples of 'ostensible' in a sentence
Meaning of "ostensible"
Ostensible: an adjective. It means shown or stated openly, but not necessarily truthfully
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- Apparent, evident; meant for open display.
- Appearing as such; being such in appearance; professed, supposed (rather than demonstrably true or real).
How to use "ostensible" in a sentence
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And we have no ostensible reason to save them.
Ostensible is often used in opposition to real or actual.
The promise of ostensible safety was all it took.
There is a jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
They take no ostensible part in human events.
The customization of such a bottle was possible but not ostensible.
His ostensible contradiction is not a contradiction at all.
Well now with ostensible acquittal.
The ostensible purpose was to spark a general uprising.
Want of funds was the ostensible reason for closing it.
As an ostensible application in case someone came snooping around.
That is a tiny ostensible revenue cost.
The ostensible issue spurring the conflict is modest.
Pipe breadth alludes to an ostensible measurement not genuine.
It is an ostensible mechanism for maintaining its position as a superpower.
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They appear to be claiming this ostensible failure as a victory.
These ostensible wives were competent to testify.
Any functionalist determination or ostensible symbolism has been carefully avoided.
The ostensible goal is human exploration.
But at the root of all ostensible differences of national.
It is ostensible that the marvelous substance of love works magically.
At least that was the ostensible reason for the layover.
The ostensible reason for the arrest was not clear.
And external expectations and our own ostensible capabilities.
Tribe as the ostensible owner shall be void.
Ostensible improvement in battery life.
Involving an ostensible identical twin.
Ostensible object of its existence.
The end of the movie offers us an ostensible happy ending.
One despite its ostensible supposedly attractive behavior.
Thus dhyana is apprehension of real identity among ostensible differences.
They are an ostensible threat to the freedom of the media.
The second film bears little resemblance to its ostensible source.
The ostensible reasons are that.
The seduction of false prophecy is its ostensible spirituality and truthfulness.
My ostensible search for peaches was in reality a search for adventure.
Yet communities of practitioners are connected by more than their ostensible tasks.
Its ostensible purpose is to protect the domestic film industry.
The same dynamic of integration based on the ostensible use of glass.
But with ostensible acquittal your whole dossier is circulated.
The breaking up of demonstrations is a serious blow to the ostensible promise of reform.
Recognize that ostensible religious signs in public space do not.
His bookish erudition amidst his penitent and disciplinary desert was ostensible.
The most ostensible of relationships.
Some coincidences are significant but not for the ostensible reasons given.
The ostensible reason was to encourage broadcasters to invest in new networks.
China is without a doubt the most ostensible symbol of a precedentless economic emergence.
The ostensible revolutionary left moves to offer this leadership.
Millions of ostensible.
The ostensible catalysts for.
