Sentence examples for ostensibly looking for from inspiring English sources

They were young, aggressive, drunk on beer, bored and ostensibly looking for currency smugglers.

Trump operatives in well-tailored suits buzzed near the security area, ostensibly looking for security risks and simple troublemakers.

"Did you plan to collar me?" asks the seductive Josephine when Wyatt drops by, ostensibly looking for suspects.

When federal security police raided a television station that is his severest critic, ostensibly looking for fiscal misdeeds, thousands of Georgians jammed streets to demand his resignation.

The customs cleanup also meant a confrontation with the federal attorney general's office, whose agents roamed the docks of all Mexico's ports, ostensibly looking for drugs.

On May 19, state policemen showed up in several Montauk restaurants and bars in the middle of the dinner hour, ostensibly looking for underage drinkers.

It joins other industry and corporate groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America and Biotechnology Industry Organization, which deploys considerable resources to sway a federal agency ostensibly looking out for how corporate products affect our health.

The Blunkett review is ostensibly looking at the issue of how local government can fulfil its statutory role of holding all schools to account for quality with so many now contracted to central government.

Hank is ostensibly looking after a lodge and surrounding preserve, which is crawling with lions and an elephant or two.

"The market, ostensibly, looks very, very cheap," Mr. Canelo said.

The paper ostensibly looks at the application of guidelines into clinical practice and populations.