for form's sake
Example Sentences
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You have to change your strategy and read from top to bottom: this is a hand for form’s sake.
From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2020
It was never form for form’s sake with Pei.
From The Guardian • May 17, 2019
A young man texts his boyfriend; he will not, one assumes, be marrying a woman for form’s sake.
From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2011
Assad said, saying Syria took part in its deliberations only for form's sake.
From Reuters • Dec. 7, 2011
A camp wall and ditch had been hurriedly made in the few hours after their arrival, merely for form's sake, because the good old Roman custom prescribed it, and Nannienus insisted upon its observance.
From A Captive of the Roman Eagles by Dahn, Felix
