Sentence examples for ostensible apology from inspiring English sources
The chorus begins with an ostensible apology — "I've been a real bad girl" — before giving way to wordless hoots and a plea to "get away," perhaps from yodelling.
Sabine goes to see Simon at home, and blithely remarks, a propos the Christmas decorations, that the Jews killed Christ; on a later visit, by way of ostensible apology, she states that the problem was not the "Jews and Christ" – she does not actually withdraw that claim – but the "Zionists".
In any case, it takes a while, maybe as long as an hour, before you realize that the play you thought you had come to see hasn't started yet, that in any case it isn't serious (anachronisms like a pizza and a gunshot take care of that) and that Mr. Schmidt's self-conscious fumblings toward, digressions from, apologies for and numerous introductions to the ostensible show are, in fact, the show.
This was a weak apology from someone said to have been 'ill', which is the ostensible reason he was nowhere to be seen while Tepco staff and others were gamely and vainly trying to control its damaged Fukushima reactors.
The ostensible reason — get this!
At least, ostensible ones.
His ostensible mandate was reform.
The past weeks have seen challenges based on ostensible felony status in Florida, ostensible deaths in North Carolina and ostensible address problems in Ohio, among others.
