APPARENT in a Sentence

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264 example sentences for APPARENT, such as:

1. Their affluence is more apparent than real.
2. It soon became apparent that no one was going to come.
3. His new video game is apparently selling like hot cakes.
4. Then, for no apparent reason, the train suddenly stopped.
5. A change in the pattern of his breathing became apparent.

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 Meanings and Examples of APPARENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
apparent
 a.  capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to eye
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He could tell, with apparent sincerity and approval, stories of courage and honor and virtue and love in the odd places he had been, and follow them with ribald stories of coldest cynicism.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
2  The anger went from Rhett's face as he turned to the little boy, and he considered his words with apparent seriousness as he always did when dealing with the children.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
3  Then, for no apparent reason, she began to sob whenever Mammy waddled out of the room, carrying the lamp.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
4  He encouraged her to talk and treated her as an adult, listening to her opinions with apparent seriousness and pretending to be guided by them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
5  It was the char-woman of the Benedick who, resting on crimson elbows, examined her with the same unflinching curiosity, the same apparent reluctance to let her pass.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
6  The morrow, rising on an apparent continuance of the same conditions, revealed nothing of what had occurred between the confronted pair.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
7  Her opinionation seemed dead; she had no apparent desire for escape; her brooding centered on Hugh.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
8  The brain is at least twenty feet from his apparent forehead in life; it is hidden away behind its vast outworks, like the innermost citadel within the amplified fortifications of Quebec.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 80. The Nut.
9  As soon as he was old enough to sit up alone and toddle about, another affliction, the nervous motion of his body, became apparent.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
10  As I confronted her, the changes grew less apparent to me, her identity stronger.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
11  Her "condition" was in no way apparent, and no one would have known a thing about it but for her persistence in making it the subject of conversation.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In IV
12  There was now an apparent disposition to relax; to widen the circle of confidences and give a more general tone to the conversation.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In IX
13  But Victor's astonishment was so genuine, and Mrs. Pontellier's indifference so apparent, that the disturbing notion did not lodge long in her brain.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXIX
14  A young man, in the dress of an officer, conducted to their steeds two females, who, as it was apparent by their dresses, were prepared to encounter the fatigues of a journey in the woods.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
15  It was, however, continued without any apparent consequences, until the moon had set, and a pale streak above the treetops, at the bend of the river a little below, announced the approach of day.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
Example Sentence: (54 in 4 pages)
16  A change in the pattern of his breathing became apparent.
17  This represents an apparent reversal of previous US policy.
18  Their affluence is more apparent than real.
19  Then, for no apparent reason, the train suddenly stopped.
20  It is apparent from these particulars that in relation to some of the payments the S.
21  It soon became apparent to everyone that he couldn't sing.
22  It soon became apparent that no one was going to come.
23  It is apparent to all that he was guilty; do you think anyone still trusts him now?
24  As for employment, this negligence is apparent in a variety of aspects, such as qualification and training.
25  Over the last decade it has become increasingly apparent that a person's genetic makeup has a strong influence on the likelihood of them catching HIV.
26  As with almost any topic, differences are apparent, given the intense state of factional rivalry between reformists and hardliners.
27  In an apparent gesture of goodwill toward the host country, Obama's ride even strayed from the usual protocol by flying the Russian tricolor, complete with little golden tassels.
28  Psychological problems very often underlie apparently physical disorders.
29  His new video game is apparently selling like hot cakes.
30  She was taken to hospital, apparently amnesiac and shocked.