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Example sentences for "outward seeming"

  • To outward seeming, all hands were well satisfied.

  • The year at Mr. Freeland's passed off very smoothly, to outward seeming.

  • Although absent in body, I was there in my heart, and mourning over them; but to outward seeming I did not bid them good-by; this is why I grieve.

  • For some time he remained in Ṭihrán, to outward seeming a pauper of no fixed abode, but inwardly rejoicing; for this is the characteristic of every soul who is firm in the Covenant.

  • For in every age the light of God hath, to outward seeming, been quenched by the peoples of the earth, and the Lamps of God extinguished by them.

  • Such will be his fate, though to outward seeming he may occupy the earth’s loftiest seats and be established upon its most exalted throne.

  • It is now thirty years since Authority resumed the rule; the village folk have again become, to outward seeming, sheep who obey without questioning.

  • In his heart I knew he had small hope of escape; yet he preserved his cheerfulness, and walked towards his prison (to outward seeming) as insensible of fear, and with as unconcerned a countenance as if he were going to a banquet or a wedding.

  • We have said that, even in her wretchedness, Minnie had learned that there were others more so, in outward seeming.

  • Go on, Lady Dora," he said, in outward seeming calm.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outward seeming" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    came over; diuers places; eight days; electromotive force; feared lest; ground glass; little patience; long trip; more instances; occasionally seen; our left; outward appearance; outward bound; outward circumstances; outward form; outward life; outward nature; outward seeming; outward things; paid for; scarcely able; secret ballot; shall call; sifted flour; third power; violent bombardment