SUPERFICIALLY in a Sentence

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1. A superficial injury is not serious.
2. This, however, was mere superficiality.
3. Starfish exhibit a superficially radial symmetry.
4. Even a superficial inspection revealed serious flaws.
5. The area bears a superficial similarity to south London.

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 Meanings and Examples of SUPERFICIALLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
superficially
 ad.  in a superficial manner; shallowly; surface only
Classic Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1  Persons but superficially acquainted with them would have taken for provincial that which was only antique.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
2  And now that we are acquainted, superficially at least, with the masters and the valets, let us pass on to the dwellings occupied by each of them.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 7 THE INTERIOR* OF THE MUSKETEERS
3  Connie liked her, she was so perfectly simple and frank, as far as she intended to be frank, and superficially kind.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
4  This, however, was mere superficiality.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
5  I found that while among them there was a large element of substantial, worthy citizens, there was also a superficiality about the life of a large class that greatly alarmed me.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V.
6  She did not feel well physically but, forced by Melanie, she went to the store every day and tried to keep up a superficial interest in the mills.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
7  Her relation with her aunt was as superficial as that of chance lodgers who pass on the stairs.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
8  Mrs. Fisher's unconventionality was, after all, a merely superficial divergence from an inherited social creed, while the manners of the Gormer circle represented their first attempt to formulate such a creed for themselves.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
9  But his dapper self-confidence seemed impenetrable to such hints, and she had a sense of something hard and self-contained behind the superficial warmth of his manner.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
10  These were her superficial considerations; but under them lurked the secret dread that the obligation might not always remain intolerable.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
11  It was the dominant animal failing to remember in the supreme moments the forceful causes of various superficial qualities.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
12  One of the prisoners was nursing a superficial wound in the foot.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
13  However, we will remark by the way, everything was not ridiculous and superficial in that curious epoch to which we are alluding, and which may be designated as the anarchy of baptismal names.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES
14  In his eyes, of course, the ecclesiastical authority was the chief of all; he was religious, superficial and correct on this point as on all others.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB
15  His defects and his vices, for he had some, were all superficial; in short, his physiognomy was of the kind which succeeds with an observer.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVEN...
Example Sentence:
1  In light of the above, it is an object of the present invention to provide a device and a method which can superficially incise prepared meat products .
2  Starfish exhibit a superficially radial symmetry.
3  Although superficially similar to the Japanese nuclear reactor accident in March that started with flooding, the situation at the Fort Calhoun plant appears far more secure.
4  The documentary's treatment/analysis of the issues was very superficial.
5  I thought that article was written at a very superficial level.
6  This simple physical concept of addictive disease and recovery has an obvious superficial attraction but may be far from the full picture.
7  Even a superficial inspection revealed serious flaws.
8  A superficial injury is not serious.
9  The area bears a superficial similarity to south London.
10  We give higher ratings to job applicants who are like us in superficial and irrelevant ways: as went to same school or share same religion.