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
That risk extends even to women like my friend Anne, who are, to all appearances, healthy and in shape.
From Washington Post • Dec. 28, 2022
His enablers are more subservient and his challengers, to all appearances, less effective.
From Salon • Jan. 17, 2022
As my colleague Doreen St. Felix discusses in detail, the title character is a black woman whose experience, in a town that, to all appearances, is predominantly white, never figures at all in the film.
From The New Yorker • May 31, 2019
The man was without clothes except for a bit about his loins, and to all appearances he was dead, since his head drooped upon his shoulder and his eyes were closed above his bearded lips.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
