ostensible

Example Sentences

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It’s telling that some of the story’s funniest, sweetest moments involve the turtles’ ostensible enemies.

From Los Angeles Times

Mostly, though, the use of Nazis signals an ostensible return to basics, if that’s the word for an elaborate, often tortured series of winks and callbacks to the original Indiana Jones trilogy.

From Los Angeles Times

Making the same scenario work in New York, however, presented new challenges, and Ismaily filled every ostensible day off with an extra recording session or one-off concert.

From New York Times

The ostensible dangers posed by Russia and its military — along with its status as the world’s top nuclear power — for decades have been the basis for America’s major troop presence in Europe.

From Washington Times

The ostensible rationale was to study traffic patterns.

From New York Times