Sentence examples for ostensibly friendly from inspiring English sources

"There are very few ostensibly friendly moves towards Russia these days.

The two haven't seen each other in eight months when the novel begins, and their ostensibly friendly lunch lapses into a tryst.

A group met him for an ostensibly friendly lunch, but secretly put a laxative in his coffee, cut off his beard and hair and used a disposable camera to photograph his humiliation.

Shamefully denied a UK cinema release, this sharp, shivery tale of ex-spouses circling each other at an ostensibly friendly social reunion riven with hidden histories and agendas keeps its mysteries on a teasingly tight leash throughout.

The climax of season three sees Bartlet overcoming his qualms to order a special forces hit on a terrorist who is also defence minister of an ostensibly friendly Middle Eastern country.

In an ostensibly friendly poker game, one cannot raise after checking instead of betting, but at the poker clubs and at Vegas one can raise after a check, thus committing the impolite, but deeply gratifying, act known as "sandbagging," or hitting the other players from a direction they hadn't anticipated.

Newer, ostensibly environmentally friendly efforts to use cleared brush and small trees as biofuel could potentially release more carbon through transportation and processing than if the material were simply burned in the woods.

While the use of medical marijuana is legal in other ostensibly cannabis friendly countries, as well as several states in the US, the idea of importing and exporting medical kush belongs to a new school of thought.

While the use of medical marijuana is legal in other ostensibly cannabis friendly countries as well as several American states, the idea of importing and exporting medical kush belongs to a new school of thought.

If you don't live near a national park, you can stock up on free, ostensibly eco-friendly products.

To wit, the three-year-old, ostensibly kid-friendly version of YouTube is showing its young viewers videos that preach the nonsensical, including "that the world is flat, that the moon landing was faked, and that the planet is ruled by reptile-human hybrids," according to BI's own first-hand findings.