Sentence examples for thing on the surface from inspiring English sources

"What appears to be one thing on the surface might be quite another".

Tisseron says something that seems to mean one thing on the surface but which turns out to be peculiarly ambiguous: "Many American studies show that television for children under three years of age doesn't favor development and can even retard it".

You see one thing on the surface, but you don't know what you're going to get".  .

Both mean one thing on the surface, and another when we climb inside them, allow them to illuminate our own confusion and awe (in the old-fashioned, double-edged sense) at the elusive tangle of the world.

If there were no ozone in the atmosphere, the sun's ultraviolet radiation would be so intense that almost any living thing on the surface would have trouble surviving.

This verse is a trifling thing on the surface, little more than the joke or jape Martial references in its final line.

"When I first talked to Nasa, we got into all kinds of stuff and I said: 'So I know you've got [these] massive glaciers.' And [they] said, 'Yeah, that massive white thing [on the surface of Mars] that gets covered with dust, we think that's ice..

Scott said: "When I first talked to NASA, we got into all kinds of stuff and I said, 'So I know you've got down there [these] massive glaciers.' And he said, 'Yeah, that the massive white thing [on the surface of Mars] that gets covered with dust, we think that's ice.'" "And I said, 'Wow!

All objects in the solar system are three-dimensional, just like things on the surface of Earth.

Yes you can find sites offering drugs or images of child abuse but you can also find these things on the surface web.

The energy released from a one-ton bomb would instead diffuse on the surface, he explained, because bombs are designed to destroy things on the surface, not to shake the rock below.