Sentence examples for superficially like that from inspiring English sources

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A shark's tooth, although superficially like that of a piranha, appears in many respects to be a modified scale, while that of the piranha is like that of other bony fishes, consisting of dentine and enamel.

Their eponymous feature is their bill, a broad area at the front of their mouth that supported a horny bill superficially like that of ducks, but they are distinguished by many other features, including a large number of teeth compressed together to form a grinding surface, and many duck-bills (the lambeosaurines) have crests on their heads with complex hollow passages.

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However, Megalancosaurus has often been regarded as an archosaur, mainly on the basis of skull characters, and one phylogenetic analysis suggested that it belonged to the Prolacertiformes, a group of superficially lizard-like reptiles that are themselves related to archosaurs.

For example, in his discussion of gold, Kripke argues that something that is superficially like gold in appearance but lacks the property of having atomic number 79, would not be gold.

Superficially, that might sound like a good deal for many Americans.

The result is an upper class that looks superficially like America, but mostly reproduces the previous generation's elite.

Then I saw the production, by Sir John Gielgud, in which Michael Goodliffe, George Pravda and Jeremy Brett gave the sort of vague, general, superficially convincing performances that are provoked by plays like this.

The syllable quantity accent in Sami superficially resembles that in Estonian and, like the former, occurs only under stress and is in part conditioned by the openness of the next syllable.

Like most of Mr. Jacobs's ideas, the move was a superficially controversial one that instead revealed an inner conservative, an embrace of ideas that's really an engine of growth.

Superficially, that seems a safe, sensible and increasingly popular option.

Dr Newman's analysis of the animals' interactions suggested that what looked, superficially, like a single group was actually more akin to two groups held together by two "mutual friends".

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