Sentence examples for well ostensibly from inspiring English sources
The phrase "well ostensibly" is not correct and does not work well in written English.
The word "well" is typically used as an adverb to modify verbs, while "ostensibly" means "apparently" or "seemingly." Combining them in this way creates confusion. Example: "The project is well ostensibly on track, but there are underlying issues."
Naturally, Shelby et al. have now promised to block him as well — ostensibly because the bureau requires "structural changes" to make it more "transparent".
They said he usually disguised the drug deals by giving his customers two plastic cups, with the drugs stashed between them, or, if they ordered a cone, offering them a cup as well — ostensibly to contain melted ice cream — with packets of cocaine or marijuana stashed in the bottom.
CAMP troops were searching without warrants not only the homes of suspected pot growers, but also the neighbors' homes as well, ostensibly to "protect themselves".
Republicans sometimes do well in ostensibly Democratic-leaning states — California, New York and Vermont, for example — while Democratic governors have done well in heavily Republican states like Montana, North Carolina and West Virginia.
The Bush campaign, in contrast, appeared to be reaching out directly to churches and church members to distribute campaign information as well as ostensibly nonpartisan material, like registration forms.
A class of well-educated, ostensibly over-achieving Asian-Australians, who may nonetheless be permanently locked out from the ranks of their society's leadership.
One well-known, ostensibly non-violent, group of activists – Sharia4Belgium – that was responsible for a stream of aggressive hate-speech and alleged recruitment was eventually broken up.
The testosterone boils in "Tom Ryan...," and while such displays are ostensibly well intended, the overall effect feels mean spirited, leaving an aftertaste most acrid.
Although promoters of scans cite a number of positive results -- patients found, for example, to have a symptomless kidney cancer -- no one has yet published any study to document the value and safety of the scans for ostensibly well people.
Detroiters who are worried about ceding local power to Michigan's Republican governor shouldn't forget the ways in which power has already been ceded to an unelected oligarchy, whose members might, no matter how ostensibly well intentioned, possess questionable ideas about urban renewal.
This "real American" exists in opposition to, well, the "other," ostensibly "not real" America of Barack Obama.
