How to Use "ostensible" with Example Sentences
- 1. Given that , it would much prefer to keep america as its ostensible ally , not a declared enemy .
- 2. Very organized in the face of the ostensible forces against him .
- 3. In pursuit of safeguards designed principally to protect the city of london , the prime minister has vetoed a treaty whose ostensible purpose is to secure a rescue of the eurozone .
- 4. The ostensible excuse-that it is unable to do so-looks less tenable now it has some military successes against the taliban .
- 5. The aggressiveness of egypt 's ostensible peace partner , israel , has helped even less .