ostensive

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Such has been the trope of the rom-com since Carole Lombard crumpled in the arms of John Barrymore, but today’s ostensive “trainwrecks” transcend the genre and the Hollywood arena.

From Salon • Aug. 10, 2015

It serves mainly to provide the regime with ostensive evidence of its power and technological progress.

From Area Handbook for Albania by Elpern, Sarah Jane

No proof, in a question of that nature, can be so showy and ostensive to a stranger as that which is supplied by this vindictive pamphlet.

From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 by De Quincey, Thomas

This instinct is far stronger and has more very ostensive outcrops than in any other age and land, and it is less controlled by the authority of school or the home.

From Creative Impulse in Industry A Proposition for Educators by Marot, Helen

The mnemonic lines, 'Barbara, Celarent, etc., provide complete directions for the ostensive reduction of all the moods of the second, third, and fourth figures to the first, with the exception of Baroko and Bokardo.

From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph