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Example sentences for "outwardly"

Lexicographically close words:
outvote; outvoted; outward; outwarde; outwardlie; outwards; outwash; outwear; outwearied; outweigh
  1. Jock was engaged outwardly in tearing bits of heather, and twisting them mechanically together; but what his inward work was we know not.

  2. This compartment is fitted with a door which opens outwardly in the bottom of the boat.

  3. Outwardly calmness itself, the rector was in reality much perplexed.

  4. Outwardly he was a tall, pleasant-voiced man, in the prime of life, and he had a persuasive way with him.

  5. Outwardly Olive was calmness itself, cheerful too, and making plans for the future, affecting to treat the whole thing as an absurd mistake; yet her demeanour did not deceive him, although he was willing she should believe it did.

  6. They wondered what card the prosecution held up its sleeve, and although outwardly calmness and composure, so did he.

  7. Although I felt heavy of heart, outwardly I was as usual, for I thought no one had any knowledge of my petition to the Pope.

  8. Yet when charity is deeply rooted in the soul it lets itself be outwardly seen, and there is a way of refusing so graciously what one is unable to give, that the refusal affords as much pleasure as the gift would have done.

  9. So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just: but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

  10. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful but within are full of dead men's bones and of all filthiness.

  11. For it is not he is a Jew, who is so outwardly: nor is that circumcision which is outwardly in the flesh.

  12. I could not smile at the King Crabs; the reading tables and the music had no interest for me; outwardly I was walking through the magnificent halls of the Aquarium--inwardly my heart was beating to the mournful rhythms of the sea.

  13. I could not reconcile what I saw now with what I had seen on the Chain Pier, though outwardly the same woman I had seen on the Chain Pier and this graceful, gracious lady could not possibly be one.

  14. Women don't hanker after that kind of love, if there's anything more outwardly tempestuous: like yourself.

  15. Outwardly he is as cold as ice; inside there is a raging volcano.

  16. His head, furrowed by sabre-strokes, was outwardly healed, but the wounds had affected his brain.

  17. And, to say sooth, Dalel was not nice, outwardly or inwardly.

  18. Rose belonged outwardly to neither factions, yet in her heart she strenuously resented the old-fashioned theory that marriage was the larger half of a man's life and the whole of a woman's.

  19. The figure approaching them was not outwardly of diabolic mould, being altogether too insignificant.

  20. This aroused the Baron's anger, and I knew from the cold sarcasm of his remarks, and the peculiarly hard tone of his voice, that he was more incensed than he outwardly showed himself to be.

  21. Already I had seen quite sufficient to convince me that the Lola, although outwardly a pleasure yacht, was built of steel, armored in its most vulnerable parts, and capable of resisting a very sharp fire.

  22. Outwardly he was as merry as the other fellows who officered that huge floating fortress; on board he was a typical smart marine, and on shore he danced and played tennis and flirted just as vigorously as did the others.

  23. Hind wings, whitish, more or less tinged with smoky grey; frequently there is a dusky, curved line beyond the middle, and this is sometimes outwardly edged with whitish.

  24. But after all we question whether the native heathen thus outwardly changed is one whit more likely to embrace the gospel than before.

  25. New Zealand was at length, outwardly at least, a Christian land.

  26. As soon as it is directed outwardly and acts upon a recognised object, as soon therefore as it has passed through the medium of knowledge, we all recognise the will at once to be the active principle, and call it by its right name.

  27. To resemble a good man even outwardly is something,--to wear in any degree the lineaments of one whom a brave and true woman honours by her love is still more!

  28. But his sympathy, if he felt any, was outwardly very chill and formal.

  29. Though outwardly calm, the letter he had received rankled in his heart.

  30. He himself was more excited than was his wont, though outwardly he remained calm and went on with his playing.

  31. Though outwardly affable, both Stubbles and the Squire were very uneasy at the arrival of Jake's hired man in company with the ablest lawyer in the city.

  32. This was good news to the Jews, outwardly but a feeble flock and a prey to the ravening wolves from neighbouring lands.

  33. Outwardly his aims and methods were very different from those of the unpractical scholar.

  34. Religion may be compared to one of those Italian city churches which are left outwardly bare and gloomy, while within they are replete with treasures of art.

  35. That a certain attribute of God hath not been outwardly manifested by these Essences of Detachment doth in no wise imply that they Who are the Day-Springs of God’s attributes and the Treasuries of His holy names did not actually possess it.

  36. And yet, in spite of Beauchene's sneers and Constance's angry remarks, Mathieu outwardly remained very calm.

  37. Mathieu began to smile, outwardly yielding to this attempt to create a diversion, but determined at heart that he would not leave the place until he had obtained the promise of a new roof.

  38. Yet what fine courage and what a fund of hope he needed to venture upon an enterprise which outwardly seemed so wild and rash, and the wisdom of which was apparent to himself alone.

  39. No writer is more master of himself, more outwardly calm, more sure of his meaning.

  40. I went home, locked myself in, and stood by my dormer window, outwardly calm enough, but in reality I bade a last good-bye to the roofs without.

  41. For about a year I led outwardly the life of a man of the world, but enormous labors lay beneath the surface of gadding about, and eager efforts to attach myself to influential kinsmen, or to people likely to be useful to us.

  42. A third indication that this outwardly flourishing period was one of deep unhappiness and mental distress for vast multitudes, is to be found in the spread of new religious movements throughout the population.

  43. Not only were the cities outwardly more splendidly built, but within the homes of the wealthy there had been great advances in the art of decoration.

  44. He was not only the Caliph of an outwardly prosperous empire in the world of reality, but he was also the Caliph of an undying empire in the deathless world of fiction, he was the Haroun-al-Raschid of the Arabian Nights.

  45. Outwardly it is very like the world before the war.

  46. He was six feet four inches tall, homely, sad-faced, handy, and as little promising outwardly as any other pilot or boatman of those days.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outwardly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    apparently; evidently; forth; official; openly; ostensibly; out; outside; outward; outwardly; seemingly; superficially; surface; without