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
"You will need to examine them, of course, if only for form's sake?" she asked, somewhat crisply.
From The Last Stroke a detective story by Lynch, Lawrence L.
