English example sentences with "ostensibly"

The website is filled with heavily censored depictions of what are ostensibly violent and pornographic incidents as means of shock value.
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The rise in ticket prices was ostensibly to pay for improvements to the service.
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Tom was ostensibly at the zoo.
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He invited her up to his room, ostensibly to look at his stamp collection.
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Ostensibly it seemed like a bad idea, but he couldn't help doing it anyway.
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Football programmes are usually A5-sized booklets which are sold on the day a match is taking place. They're usually produced by the home football club, meaning a programme for the City versus United game is produced by City. Ostensibly, they're about that forthcoming match, and have team news and information, interviews with people at the club, often a piece written by the home team's manager, news about the opposing team, and so on. They're usually regarded as memorabilia.
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