Sentence examples for is superficially like from inspiring English sources

It is superficially like the Sunday funnies; Mr. Fawcett worked overtime composing this wonderfully splintered narrative.

His style is superficially like Edward Hopper's, but Hopper's paintings are filled with strong emotions, despite their apparent simplicity.

For example, in his discussion of gold, Kripke argues that something that is superficially like gold in appearance but lacks the property of having atomic number 79, would not be gold.

As a story of girlfriends living in New York in their 20s, it is superficially like "Girls" (and "2 Broke Girls," for that matter), though much closer in concept and attitude to the late "Flight of the Conchords," another scruffy urban comedy that takes occasional flight into the surreal.

All the species of Pereskia are superficially like normal trees or shrubs and have numerous leaves.

Entoprocts are superficially like bryozoans (ectoproct)s, as both groups have a "crown" of tentacles whose cilia generate water currents that draw food particles towards the mouth.

It appears in my new novel, My Driver, an adventure story with two writers in it: a Ugandan one, Mary Tendo, and a British one, Vanessa Henman, who is superficially very like me.

To Chinese mathematics educators, 'what is meant by 'cooperativeness' is the cooperativeness in the sense of mental activity rather than cooperation which is superficially just a form like people gathering' (Cheng 2011, p. 81).

If this sounds a little like "Cloverfield" it is, superficially, though "Diary" is a lot cheaper-looking, generally smarter-sounding and a whole lot funnier.

The answer is, superficially, yes.

The film is superficially a thriller.