to all appearances
Example Sentences
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There was no further U.S. coverage of the controversy until the BBC podcast appeared in 2020, and to all appearances Gibney continued to live peacefully in Florida retirement.
From Salon • Jul. 6, 2025
For three decades after the Soviet Union’s collapse, oil- and uranium-producing Kazakhstan was, to all appearances, the most prosperous and stable of its former Central Asian republics.
From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2022
But the discomfiting power of “Procession” comes from its ability to show and, to all appearances, facilitate them.
From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2021
It’s on Blake and Robitaille to give Desjardins and Sturm and anyone else who might join them the right material to win in a league that has, to all appearances, left the Kings behind.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2018
The man was without clothes except for a bit about his loins, and to all appearances he was dead, since his head drooped upon his shoulder and his eyes were closed above his bearded lips.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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