to all appearances
Example Sentences
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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
It’s on Blake and Robitaille to give Desjardins and Sturm and anyone else who might join them the right material to win in a league that has, to all appearances, left the Kings behind.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 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
