Sentence examples for ostensibly plain from inspiring English sources

This has meant that ambitious or innovative producers in Europe now often make their best or best-selling wines as ostensibly plain vin du pays.

She specifically cites the troubles caused by her plain speaking in the ostensibly integrated and sophisticated downtown milieu, centered around Café Society, where she became a celebrity in the early forties.

She was, in her trademark plain-yellow dresses, an ostensibly insignificant figure, but she was a powerful human reminder of Marcos's use of violence.

The e-reading battle is raging hot, and while statistics ostensibly showing an insurgent iPad should be taken with a grain of salt, the volatility of the market is plain to see.

Ostensibly this aids transparency.

His teammates, ostensibly.

The commission is ostensibly independent.

That, ostensibly, was the end.

I'm ostensibly an expert.

It is not — at least, not ostensibly.

Just who is this ostensibly radical guy?