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Example sentences for "superficially"

Lexicographically close words:
superessential; superest; superficial; superficialities; superficiality; superficie; superficies; superfine; superfluities; superfluity
  1. But it may be well to point out that a general view will perfectly reconcile the superficially conflicting doctrines of recent biologists, as to "progress by struggle" and "progress by co-operation.

  2. So superficially has history been written that it is difficult to gather the effect thus far of the change in the channels of trade; but there seems to be no obscurity as to the effect of papal and Spanish rule.

  3. Shakespeare pictures men and women as they might be in any age; but Jonson is content to picture the men and women of London as they appeared superficially in the year 1600.

  4. Footnote: Several of Howells's earlier novels deal with New England life, but superficially and without understanding.

  5. Fedalma is essentially a poetic Romola, but Romola so modified by circumstances and temperament as to be superficially contrasting.

  6. In Arthur Donnithorne, the slight sketch placed before us in Captain Wybrow is elaborated into minute completeness, and at the same time freed from all that made Wybrow even superficially repellent.

  7. In these mountains, gophers were sought in vain at several localities, including Antelope Springs which superficially appeared suitable for the animals.

  8. Superficially levidensis resembles absonus in size and color, but the skulls closely resemble those of albicaudatus, except for size in which they are smaller in all measurements.

  9. Superficially the injury on the fruit is quite similar to that of the husk maggot.

  10. Perhaps this was due to the fact that superficially regarded the machine the Wrights were trying to perfect gave promise of usefulness only in war or in sport.

  11. Crossed and self-fertilised seeds from the perfect flowers, and other seeds from the self-fertilised cleistogene flowers, were sown in five pots, each divided superficially into three compartments.

  12. The three lots of seeds thus obtained were allowed to germinate on bare sand; and whenever a seed in all three lots, or in only two, germinated at the same time, they were planted in pots superficially divided into three or two compartments.

  13. But such a comparison, while superficially plausible, upon reflection is seen to be beside the mark.

  14. In sea-urchins we often find two creatures superficially indistinguishable, but the one is a female with large ovaries and the other is a male with equally large testes.

  15. Such an analysis, however superficially conducted, would have shown the enumeration to be both redundant and defective.

  16. And in practice that particular condition is usually styled the cause, whose share in the matter is superficially the most conspicuous or whose requisiteness to the production of the effect we happen to be insisting on at the moment.

  17. The Endowment is a conception superficially sublime but fundamentally ridiculous.

  18. And in practice, that particular condition is usually styled the cause, whose share in the matter is superficially the most conspicuous, or whose requisiteness to the production of the effect we happen to be insisting on at the moment.

  19. Low bushes of rhagodia, at great distances apart, were growing on the more open ground; the soil, consisting of a red clay and sand, only superficially covering the fossil formation beneath it.

  20. It was still a matter of conjecture what the real character of Central Australia really was, for its depths had been but superficially explored before my recent attempt.

  21. Many details derived from the Commedia Erudita rendered the resemblance between the modern improvised drama and the vernacular comedy of ancient Rome superficially striking.

  22. These several causes of complaint against the British government, viewed superficially by the people, caused great irritation in the public mind, and a corresponding sympathy for France, the avowed and active enemy of Great Britain.

  23. This doctrine appeared inexpugnable; but it now seemed to me, on retrospect, that my teachers had occupied themselves but superficially with the means of forming and keeping up these salutary associations.

  24. That seems to me to be the one big theme in a tale which superficially is all jollity and laughter.

  25. Nature, travel, work--all these things can help you in your struggle towards indifference and the superficially normal.

  26. This generation superficially tends to cut practice loose from faith, and so to look for grapes from thorns and figs from thistles.

  27. She was thinking superficially that she had never heard Clementina say had ought, so much, if ever before.

  28. Is he superficially acquainted with any of the relevant facts?


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "superficially" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    apace; apparently; expeditiously; face; furiously; generally; hastily; heavily; hotfoot; immediately; instantly; lightly; offhand; openly; ostensibly; out; outside; outward; outwardly; promptly; quickly; seemingly; slowly; speedily; superficially; surface; swiftly; without