outwardly

Example Sentences

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While outwardly glamorous, working at a luxury store can be cutthroat.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 25, 2025

There seems little outwardly wrong with the company’s performance.

From Barron's • Dec. 11, 2025

At first his projects were fairly well-behaved and faithful, at least outwardly, to the Modernist principles he had learned at USC: flat roofs, restrained geometry.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

From the early 1990s to about the mid-2010s, he ran an outwardly legitimate umbrella company called Sarwani International Corporation, with subsidiary businesses in Pakistan, the UAE and the UK.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2025

We were more outwardly directed than the town we came from.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove