Use "ostensibly" in a sentence

1. Enough to put the notion into the head of a baggage handler that the brand new bright pink carry-on there, ostensibly marked for that very flight, was actually intended for a different airline entirely

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2. So what are the facts? An operation arranging illegal immigration of undesirables (according to Renald Forhamm) ostensibly organised from Earth with well-placed contacts across on Errd, a suspicious Errdian in a position of some power in London, Earth, who is upset by the arrival of an agent of the Secret Guild on his patch … and come to think of it, he’d not liked the fact you were coming to this part of the country

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3. As she neared the corner, she went wide, eyes scanning ahead and spotted the men, standing together to one side of the walkway … ostensibly talking animatedly … no, one of them’s glanced to see if I’m coming … They paid her no attention as she neared them – she didn’t expect them to

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4. It took some minutes to alert the girl ostensibly serving at the counter but Kara managed to obtain some refreshments eventually

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5. When he rides into the yard I’m out in the stable block ostensibly grooming Sefir, though the effectiveness of my so-called grooming would be called into doubt by any half-capable stablehand but Sefir doesn’t seem to mind

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6. This not-so-subtle hint bears fruit and Gilla and I spend the following morning searching the shops for something suitable while Caderl makes the visit to his workers that was ostensibly the primary reason for his accompanying us

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7. The receptionist, ostensibly busying herself with some papers, is obviously earwigging for all she is worth but she looks puzzled so probably doesn’t have a clue what we are talking about

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8. Andy stood a little apart; a plan of some sort in his hands, ostensibly watching the diggers

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9. Harold came to Malvern, ostensibly upon business, and spent the afternoon with Harry

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10. which allowed her maybe not to entirely forget the previous awkwardness but at least to ostensibly move on from it and remain just as close as they ever had been

11. It seemed the only noticeable difference between the two was the artificial Monique found him attractive – at least ostensibly

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12. Why, after trillions of dollars having (ostensibly) been spent on the poor from the inception of LBJ"s „Great Society) until the present day, are the poor still among us? Could it possibly be that the majority of that money went, not to help the intended recipients, but rather to build and maintain left-wing, bureaucratic social services empires? In other words, as a sixties book 127

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13. Said harness was created for Esmond Pie, ostensibly for the management of a herd of goats, or at least that’s what he told its fabricator, our own Mr

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14. Ostensibly the army was to go to Santiago to attack and destroy the batteries thus enabling the navy to enter the harbour, remove the mines, and co-operate with the army on land in destroying the fleet and capturing the city

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15. Ostensibly they were promised secret American support in weapons and believed it for reasons only they can explain

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16. Such (casual) indifference to this important (historical) event reminded me of a remark made by the Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, and I quote, ―Give the people sports‖; (the soccer matches ostensibly intended to provide cover for his considerable misdeeds)

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17. Many were filed a few years ago by a number of State Attorney Generals against the Tobacco Industry to (ostensibly) defray the rising costs of Health Care

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18. He looked at what one would call a glen if it weren’t for the awfully wrong conditions and the green overarching roof made from ostensibly ancient tree branches

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19. Scholars and historians still disagree as to whether the Disruption, ostensibly over the issue of a congregation’s right to call a minister of their own choosing, was necessary

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20. Maximilian and his wife Charlotte, whose job it was to ostensibly bring peace and

21. I don’t think it will be necessary, but just in case, I will go to Tlatelolco with you, ostensibly for the festival, but mostly so I can make sure he sees me

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22. The Chinese authorities took this action ostensibly in preparation for the visit of the President of the United States who at the time was William Jefferson Clinton

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23. His hiding place was a very old building, dilapidated from the outside, and ostensibly only poor people could live in it

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24. She came to our office every evening after 5pm — ostensibly to do our books after I left

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25. My promotion never arrived, ostensibly due to a) Jimmie Carter’s pay freeze, b) loss of high grade ceiling point to Code 400, the Engineering Dept

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26. The father ostensibly raised horses on their 58 acre farm on Fire St

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27. Two or three times in a summer week-cycle, when lessons were done, Yeke would take the small girl out for a walk in order, ostensibly, to give Annyeke’s parents a chance to be by themselves

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28. Especially since, ostensibly, the newcomers were mostly technicians and engineers rather than marines and Special Forces

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29. Although ostensibly created to improve reimbursement for evaluation and

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30. Sent, ostensibly, by Director Edwards, and we display it on every station and in everyone’s quarters

31. As all the birth records and adoptions were ostensibly legitimate, there was no problem in making this assertion

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32. This business was not ostensibly related to Abrahams Pharmaceutical but dealt with the whole industry as a supplier

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33. His idea ostensibly had started a trend –

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34. changed ostensibly, in slow motion, from fury to thoughtfulness,

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35. By the time he was finished he had seven letters labelled Lance, followed by the date they had ostensibly first been written, printed and sent

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36. The Soviet Union normally sends agents to overseas diplomatic posts ostensibly as diplomats or simply as embassy employees

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37. Toronto on the following Monday, ostensibly to meet with the paper wholesaler

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38. This mission, ostensibly identical to the previous one, met no resistance

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39. Crime scene technicians had spent two hours going over the sea terrace and master suite with a fine-toothed comb, as well as a yacht docked on the other side of the marina, where the shot ostensibly came from

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40. "She's my sister and someone, ostensibly involved with Durov, is threatening her

41. It was a highly successful public relations exercise and served as a subtle reminder to friend and foe alike that Britannia ostensibly still ruled the waves

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42. Slowly and ostensibly, she then put her handgun back in the waterproof pouch containing her meager kit and supplies while eyeing the two Americans facing her

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43. ostensibly to look for marks or tools of the devil, but in reality to further break the will of the accused and humiliate her, so that she might be quivering in fear and discomfort before ever being tortured by the pious henchmen

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44. They are received as providential messiahs precisely because they are unencumbered with a discernible past and, thus, are ostensibly unburdened by prior affiliations and commitments

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45. He retuned to the downtown mall, ostensibly to check up on his staff

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46. We had on camera someone called Sanjeev Saxena, ostensibly an aide of Amar Singh, meeting the MPs at their residence with a large bag of money

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47. had ostensibly straightened out

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48. jects ostensibly as different as earth, rock, and gold, is said to have

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49. Long ago, this nation was divided and a war fought, ostensibly over the issue of slavery, though we who can face reality, know it was really only economics

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50. He opened his mouth, ostensibly to spew some effusive pleasantries, but Sandra cut him off, back to the curt irritation she’d displayed when Cam had arrived

51. Ostensibly, you will be asked to return the child to its father, but what we are proposing is that you bring the child, post haste, to Catherine’s bedside where she will claim the child as her very own

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52. These organizations for sectarianism ostensibly elect themselves judges of character by contracting out as the border patrol and domestic maintenance for our endangered homes, neighborhoods, cities, states and nations by burying us in layers of Babushka fences

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53. It follows that those who seek ostensibly to impose Shariah through non-violent techniques – notably in the West, the organization known as the Muslim Brotherhood – are our enemies every bit as much as those who overtly strive to defeat us by murderous terrorism

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54. Ostensibly Danny had gone out to mow the grass but it was at knee height

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55. Ostensibly above a sandwich shop, the new office was in what had once been a sewing machine factory

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56. Consider this study: “Elevations in ostensibly anabolic hormones with resistance exercise

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57. [14] Elevations in ostensibly anabolic hormones with resistance exercise enhance neither training-

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58. There was another group congregating across the street, ostensibly in order to keep watch on the turkeys in the smoker, but I had a feeling there was more beer drinking than turkey-watching going on there

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59. The few items that were left he had traded yesterday for a cargo of ostensibly worthless everyday items

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60. A minority of Ghandharvas ostensibly in league with Vayu was there too

61. ostensibly dubious motives of others, or the supposed unfairness of life

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62. between what is necessary and what is superfluous ostensibly loses its relevancy

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63. another peculiar observation, namely, that whereas certain trees have ostensibly barely been

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64. Ostensibly, removing all restrictions on the total of choices, so

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65. even committing what are ostensibly victimless crimes can amount to shooting oneself in the

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66. Although ostensibly symbiotic to some, the relationships wouldn't

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67. Then he created phony companies ostensibly run by

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68. There was an initial mutual attraction and because of that she started visiting us, ostensibly to see my sister but in reality to be close to me

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69. Here is the question: how can you discern between tool-creativity and human creativity? Humans create tools and use them ostensibly for human needs and purposes

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70. All the people guilty of any illegal offense were sent to hospitals instead: ostensibly to be healed… however even the prospect, even the possibility of any criminal having to go to a hospital because they were in some way sick… was so socially damaging to their own criminal self-esteem, their own identity as a criminal: that they often committed suicide; rather than go to any hospital… simply because they did not want to be healed against their will

71. at the results that still bedevil our ostensibly advanced civilization

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72. Ever since the conflict over the theater excursion for the gifted and talented children last year, she and Renata had been tetchy with each other, even though they were ostensibly still friends

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73. He’s in the throes of hard convulsions and there’s blood on his face, ostensibly from having bitten his own tongue

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74. A couch by midwives attended with wholesome food reposeful, cleanest swaddles as though forthbringing were now done and by wise foresight set: but to this no less of what drugs there is need and surgical implements which are pertaining to her case not omitting aspect of all very distracting spectacles in various latitudes by our terrestrial orb offered together with images, divine and human, the cogitation of which by sejunct females is to tumescence conducive or eases issue in the high sunbright wellbuilt fair home of mothers when, ostensibly far gone and reproductitive, it is come by her thereto to lie in, her term up

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75. Even though they were ostensibly meeting as two old friends, there was no doubt that Armansky only wanted to talk about Salander and, with the help of a few drinks, indulge in a spot of sentimentality

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76. Ostensibly, he was conducting the routine security check he and the other members of the Imperial Guard carried out before any meeting of such august personages, but the imagery he was actually watching was a display of Harchong’s Shwei Province

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77. And now more than ever,’ she said with a mournful, confiding expression, ostensibly addressing her brother, but unmistakably intending her words only for Levin, ‘now when I have such need of some occupation, I cannot

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78. And since that time, two of his ostensibly right-hand men have been murdered, some say because Casselli feared their collecting the big reward

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79. But she soon found a curious correspondence between the ostensibly chance position of the cows and her wishes in this matter, till she felt that their order could not be the result of accident

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80. But she wrote anew to her mother, ostensibly to notify the wedding-day; really to again implore her advice

81. They owned one car per family, American-made, drank moderately if at all, and dedicated weekends to lawn care, to hobbies pursued in basements, or to watching golf in the afternoon with the living room lights off, ostensibly to reduce the glare off the tube but really so that no one noticed if they fell asleep

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82. Seven o’clock was some kind of citywide dogwalking hour, when hordes of ostensibly autonomous individuals, still in permutations of professional attire, rushed out of their co-ops tugged by leashes taut as waterskiers’ ropes, at the other end of which, straining like hairy engines, were spaniels, shih tzus, bichons frises

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83. William moves toward the chest of drawers on the north wall, ostensibly looking for more light, but actually awaiting another infusion of courage, or candor, or whatever this is

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84. ” Dunk was grateful to the fat septon, who had visited him near every day…to pray for him, ostensibly, though more time seemed to be taken up with tales and gossip

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85. Many of the ostensibly simple terms he used apply to more than just one concept and quickly become confusing

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86. Divisional first liens on poorly located mileage may receive much less favorable treatment in a reorganization than blanket mortgage bonds ostensibly junior to them

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87. Straight bonds and preferred stocks ostensibly offering a higher return are almost certain to involve an appreciable risk factor

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88. 4 An extraordinary sequel of this transaction was the receivership of Studebaker Corporation in April 1933, ostensibly caused by the opposition of minority stockholders of White Motor to a merger of the two companies

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89. In the fall of 1973, he’d been admitted into the VA, ostensibly for psychiatric evaluation and tests

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90. Salk’s and the Sabin vaccines had eradicated polio, ostensibly for good

91. Ostensibly, to avoid double taxation, when a management member becomes subject to ordinary income tax because of the exercise of an option, the company issuing the option receives a full tax deduction from its ordinary income equal generally to the difference between the market value of the exercised option and the executive’s cost basis for the option shares

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