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How to use apparently in a sentence

40 example sentences · adverb

Apparently means plainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently. Example: “A man may be apparently friendly, yet malicious in heart.”

Examples of apparently by meaning

adverbSeemingly; in appearance.

  • A man may be apparently friendly, yet malicious in heart.
  • The r-stems had apparently been reduced to the five nuclear kinship terms that still survive in Modern English.2006, Donald Ringe, From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1), Oxford: Oxford University Press...
  • Brianna apparently returned tense and agitated, unwilling to say what was bothering her.2026 July 16, Nicholas Muhoro, “Inside the 2004 Brianna Maitland Case: One of Vermont’s Most Haunting Mysteries”, in Skip Boring, archived...

adverbAccording to what the speaker has read or heard.

  • Apparently you are quite a good dancer.
  • Similarly, the new move to apparently involve the National Guard in ICE operations could rub people the wrong way.2025 June 11, Aaron Blake, “Americans voted for deportations. They didn’t necessarily vote for this.”, in CNN

More sentences with apparently

  • His extensive mining for apparently statistically significant results made any of his results questionable.From the entry mining
  • Consider fish, who are apparently sentient yet cognitively extremely primitive in comparison with humans.From the entry sentient
  • I thought the guards would give us trouble, but apparently he had paid them off.From the entry pay off
  • In pseudohypertrophic paralysis, the muscles are apparently enlarged, but are really degenerated and replaced by fat.From the entry pseudohypertrophic
  • They found his car in a parking thirty miles away; apparently it had been stolen by a joyrider.From the entry parking
  • Apparently his stolen car had been taken to a chop shop, as the police only recovered the frame.From the entry chop shop
  • The judge's partiality towards the defendant caused him to be replaced, with someone who was apparently more neutral.From the entry partiality
  • Apparently his best idea for persuading someone is to get them liquored up and then wear them down.From the entry liquor up
  • The court is apparently not buying the defendants’ claim that they were just kidding about the death threats.From the entry just kidding
  • Cellular mobiles can have apparently bizarre holes in their reach.From the entry cellular mobile
  • The kitten was sitting by itself on the sidewalk, mewing, apparently expecting its mother to appear at any moment.From the entry by itself
  • He's apparently found his place at the monastery.From the entry find one's place
  • The manifestation of such philosophy seemed to wax and wane, being the most common one time, but virtually without followers at another, apparently disappearing.From the entry wax and wane
  • I have satisfied myself that she is alive, and apparently well, and hiding in plain sight. Prudence prevents me from saying where.From the entry hide in plain sight
  • Apparently there are some guys who like to stick metal rods down their cumholes and I'm just like, nah dude, I'm satisfied with my good old fashioned five-finger parties.From the entry cumhole
  • Apparently I am a bootlicker for, being consistent in my beliefs?2026 January 26, FullMetalKaiju, “5 months later this mf STILL thinks America is under a fascist dictatorship”, in r/DoomerCircleJerk…. From the entry goybeam
  • From Chinamaxxers to the owners of French country-style kitchens: the quislings could be anywhere, apparently.2026 February 26, Coco Khan, “Britain and the US, calm down. The gen Z Chinamaxxers will do you no harm”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The…. From the entry Chinamaxxer
  • Waltz, apparently accidentally, added Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg to the chain.2025 March 24, Katie Bo Lillis, Kaitlan Collins, Jeff Zeleny, Evan Perez, Oren Liebermann, Jamie Gangel, Kit Maher and Sean Lyngaas…. From the entry pete
  • Trump’s apparently keen interest in shaping American culture that may be most intriguing.2025 April 17, Linda Feldmann, “How Donald Trump is upending American culture”, in The Christian Science Monitor, archived from the…. From the entry authoritarian
  • Even top government officials apparently have had no contact with him.2025 June 26, Kasra Naji, “When Iran's supreme leader emerges from hiding he will find a very different nation”, in BBC, archived from the…. From the entry incommunicado
  • I'm now apparently being seduced by the Dwight Schrute of the United Arab Emirates.2025, Josie Juniper, Coming in Hot, Grand Central Publishing. From the entry Dwight Schrute
  • Whatever it is, there is nothing more embarrassing, apparently, than a millennial.2024 January 29, Charlie Gowans-Eglinton, “Help! I am about to reach my 'millenopause'”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry millenopause
  • Rowling lacks are neopronouns and xenopronouns because, apparently, neopronouns aren’t crazy enough,” Ms Panahi said.2024 June 18, “Lefties losing it: Rita Panahi mocks trans activist over ‘xenopronouns’”, in Sky News Australia, Sydney, N.S.W.: News Corp…. From the entry xenopronoun
  • DiCaprio is notorious for his questionable dating habits, which apparently involve a hard cut-off at age 25.2023 November 3, “The age-old question of separating art from the DiCaprio”, in Daily Illini, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From the entry twink death
  • That lesson should have been learnt with the "pingdemic" last summer but apparently was not.2022 January 5, “‘Pingdemic’ lessons: established 1855”, in The Daily Telegraph, London, page 17. From the entry pingdemic
  • This apparently causes no problems, because beaked whales—keeping it weird—neither bite nor chew their food.2021 March 30, J. B. MacKinnon, “An Entire Group of Whales Has Somehow Escaped Human Attention”, in The Atlantic. From the entry teuthivorous
  • Apparently context and logic exit your brain the moment you start thinking alt-right.2021 April 30, u/LanskiAK, “Judge says Columbus police ran 'amok' during protests, bans future violent responses”, in Reddit, r/Columbus…. From the entry headass
  • They apparently like middle aged woman attacking a little girl who was SA’d!2020 September 22, @Carly4243, Twitter, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2024. From the entry SA
  • The amazing real-estate bubble had not yet popped, and the economy was still apparently rocking.2020 August 7, Kurt Andersen, “College-Educated Professionals Are Capitalism’s Useful Idiots”, in The Atlantic. From the entry Great Recession
  • On came the mundunugu, standing in the saddle and chopping down at the apparently oblivious man.2020, R. A. Salvatore, Song of the Risen God. From the entry mundunugu
  • On being asked what was wrong, I apparently wailed “I’m schoolsick!2020, Nina Ann Smith, It's Odd, The Things One Remembers, FriesenPress, page 17. From the entry schoolsick
  • (Pups are apparently different from "furries," who dress up in animal suits.2019 April 29, Christie Blatchford, “Christie Blatchford: What ’puppy play’ enthusiasts do behind closed doors shouldn’t be for our…. From the entry pup
  • Apparently this was planned before the whiskey-and-weed bull session on The Joe Rogan Experience.2018 November 30, Elizabeth Lopatto, “Why so many people think Elon Musk is a hero — or a villain”, in The Verge, archived from the…. From the entry bull session
  • The only thing Bitcoin cares about, apparently, is increasing in price and adoption.2017 October 20, David Dinkins, “Bitcoin Breaks $6,000 Barrier, Market Cap Now Exceeds $100 Billion”, in Cointelegraph. From the entry honey badger
  • By using Sanghi, Digvijaya Singh is apparently referring to the RSS, the parent organisation of the BJP.2017, Times of India. From the entry sanghi

Meaning of apparently

  1. adverb Plainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently.
  2. adverb Seemingly; in appearance.
  3. adverb According to what the speaker has read or heard.

Full definition of apparently

Questions about apparently in a sentence

How do you use apparently in a sentence?
Apparently is used as an adverb. For example: “A man may be apparently friendly, yet malicious in heart.”
What is a short sentence with apparently?
“Apparently you are quite a good dancer.”
What does apparently mean?
Apparently means plainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently.

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