Sentence examples for ostensibly used for from inspiring English sources
Ostensibly used for identity protection, Social Security number abuse has led to increased stalking and even murder.
Over time she amassed considerable wealth (which she attributed to political donations) that included numerous parcels of real-estate property and bank accounts and a fleet of more than a dozen airplanes and helicopters that were ostensibly used for political campaigning.
You know those DS cards that are ostensibly used for software development or "homebrew," but are really used to pirate games left, right and center?
While young low-income mothers of color are imaged as the most immoral and least responsible, women who wait to have children so they can pursue education or careers are also on the hook: they're ostensibly using birth control, having sex for pleasure and selfishly putting themselves ahead of their reproductive duties.
Biologists have long thought that better color vision is, well, better, especially because primates ostensibly use color to determine the ripeness of fruit, for example.
The President proposes to slash that payment obligation by at least 50% for brand-name drugs to help the middle class, ostensibly using concessions offered by drugmakers.
It looked like the uniform of a dull college, and the Olympic ruling bodies rejected it, ostensibly on legal grounds (it's used for fund-raising) but obviously on aesthetic ones.
One was ostensibly meant to curb pornography but might also be used, for example, to ban traditional dances and thus persecute minorities.
The multi-million dollar facility is ostensibly intended to produce bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), a bacteria commonly used for pesticides.
Though ostensibly for anti-terrorism efforts, the grants are going to places like Fargo, N.D., where they're inevitably used for routine policing.
While this data will ostensibly be used to improve tractors for everyone's use, farmers aren't additionally compensated for the monetary benefits their insights provide.
