to all appearances
Example Sentences
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The town is essentially a sunny place, full of mostly sunny people, to all appearances, a typical comedy hamlet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2026
His enablers are more subservient and his challengers, to all appearances, less effective.
From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2022
For three decades after the Soviet Union’s collapse, oil- and uranium-producing Kazakhstan was, to all appearances, the most prosperous and stable of its former Central Asian republics.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2022
Of course, Adam leads the would-be baldness curers, who to all appearances have the resources of the F.B.I., straight to Bigfoot.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2018
And with that, he would wander back into his study, to all appearances still thoroughly engrossed in the volume held open in his hands.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
