at first blush

Example Sentences

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I think I didn’t even quite understand what I was reading — I’m sure at first blush I thought it was romantic and wild, just like my all-consuming teenage crushes at the time.

From Los Angeles Times

Memories get classified in ways that seem at first blush straightforward.

From The Wall Street Journal

Even then, his "logic" falls apart at first blush.

From Salon

The whole idea of a tourist attraction built as a guileless ode to love, and shrine to a Slovak poem, may strike you, at first blush, as defying both rhyme and reason.

From New York Times

That such discoveries were made at a cancer center isn't as surprising as it might seem at first blush.

From Science Daily