Sentence examples for ostensibly useful from inspiring English sources

A small handful of giant tech companies — Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Google and Microsoft — make products that are ostensibly useful, and we decide how useful they are and how much privacy we're willing to trade to get them.

Who among us can resist what is ostensibly the most useful character in 2017, Face With Open Mouth Vomiting?

So when confronted by this (like, say, by a too-curious delivery guy who grazes your tit when he is ostensibly petting the puppy dog you are holding!) it is useful to make passing reference to the boyfriend who will be around imminently to, I dunno, be around.

It has been argued that tests can be useful for clinical decision-making, in spite of ostensibly low reliability [ 53], and that it is more important to establish validity of a test or measure [ 46].

This piece of sophisticated but highly practical advice is from his book, "Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms for Today's Investor," which is ostensibly a dictionary-glossary of financial terms but is actually considerably more useful than a reference for occasional consultation (Houghton Mifflin, third edition, $13.95).

But it does have one useful property: it gives legal cover for the addition of water, ostensibly to restart the fermentation process.Mind you, the legalisms are a little complex.

The new Congress that had just been sworn in that January 1971 could have found it useful to make Nixon look like a failure, with a presidential election ostensibly lurking around the corner (though two years back then were far longer in politics than they are now).

Ostensibly this aids transparency.

His teammates, ostensibly.

The commission is ostensibly independent.

That, ostensibly, was the end.