| 1. | These ostensible realities, politics, point. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | His ostensible reason, however, was to ask whether Mr. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 3. | Underneath the ostensible sounds, the august chorus of heroes, th. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 4. | He was brushed and washed at the usual hour, and set off with his son to pursue his ostensible calling. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 5. | The ostensible reason why Ahab did not go on board of the whaler we had spoken was this the wind and sea betokened storms. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 6. | "I own that your question embarrasses me, Valentine, for I cannot say that the count has rendered me any ostensible service. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |