for form's sake
Example Sentences
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You have to change your strategy and read from top to bottom: this is a hand for form’s sake.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2020
It was never form for form’s sake with Pei.
From The Guardian ● May 17, 2019
A young man texts his boyfriend; he will not, one assumes, be marrying a woman for form’s sake.
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2011
Assad said, saying Syria took part in its deliberations only for form's sake.
From Reuters ● Dec. 7, 2011
For months I cut myself loose from all books except the little copy of the Testament and Psalms which I carried with me more for form's sake than for any other reason, I fear.
From The Book of Courage by John Thomson Faris