Sentence examples for ostensibly he is from inspiring English sources

So, ostensibly, he is tuned out.

Ostensibly, he is a professor of communication arts at Union University in Jackson, Tenn.

Ostensibly, he is perfectly polite and artfully flirty, but you sense a reservoir of disdain and spikiness sloshing about just below the surface, and you brace yourself against the moment he decides to draw on it.

Ostensibly, he is a savvy millennial who exhibits traits of bohemia (he wears a floppy straw hat to remind him of a memorable fortnight spent in the woods), but there's also a trace of marketing director (the word "brand" peppers his conversation).

Ostensibly he was a respectable, recently retired lawyer but there was a recklessness about him.

Ostensibly, he's there to sort out his grandfather's possessions.

Ostensibly, he was there because he was working as an official at the D.C.-based Export-Import Bank.

Ostensibly he's on holiday, but his head is deep in preparation for Husbands and Wives.

Ostensibly, he's there to sort out family possessions (among them a treasured 1894 book, "Progress in Flying Machines"); in reality, he's sorting out his own past.

Ostensibly he was on the front foot when he drove and edged to the keeper but that front foot was barely beyond the popping crease.

Ostensibly, he's going for work — McCarthy is a well-regarded travel journalist and an editor at large for National Geographic Traveler — but both he and the saintly and incredibly cool D know that's not the real reason he's going.