Sentence examples for they were ostensibly from inspiring English sources

In an experiment conducted by French psychologists, 18-20 year old single women listened to music while they were ostensibly waiting for the experiment to start.

His rebellion is not excused by poverty or abuse and although his father came back from Vietnam with post-traumatic stress disorder, they were ostensibly a happy family.

The houses cost $10,000 each to build; they were ostensibly designed by Mortimer C. Merritt, but they followed the tried-and-true formula for such structures so closely that the amount of designing they required is questionable.

Tells how, in the deal with Warner, Time essentially gave control of the company they were ostensibly purchasing to Steven Ross, CEO of Warner, making Time a small part of a much larger company that shows signs now of beginning to pander editorially to corporate and advertising interests.

The penalties represented a sudden and dramatic shift in the state's drug-fighting strategy, and they faced heavy opposition from the very law-enforcement officials they were ostensibly intended to aid, many of whom feared that they would flood the courts.

Featuring poolside shisha pipes, bottled beers and assorted football friends and team-mates both past and present, including Titus Bramble and Everton's Ross Barkley, they were ostensibly harmless but played straight into fans' nagging suspicions regarding the presence of a hedonistic culture in certain dressing room quarters.

And are they welcomed by those they are ostensibly helping?

In some Olympic events, athletes help each other, even though they are ostensibly competitors.

They are ostensibly monogamous but have an "if you cheat, please don't tell me" rule.

Spies are not above deceiving one another, even when they are ostensibly on the same side.

Even when they're ostensibly limited in ambition, intimate films have a way of transcending themselves.