How to Use apparent in a Sentence

apparent

adjective
  • What was the apparent cause of the accident?
  • We disagreed on the apparent meaning of the movie.
  • From the beginning, it was apparent that she was not an ordinary child.
  • He started yelling and throwing things for no apparent reason.
  • Nowhere was the rise of K-beauty more apparent than in the skin-care realm.
    Deanna Pai, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2024
  • The body was found near the shore, about 20 miles south of Cassville, and had an apparent gunshot wound.
    Faith Karimi, CNN, 1 June 2023
  • But the fraught nature of those ties was apparent at the G-20 summit.
    Karishma Mehrotra, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The Middle Fork was reshaped by the gold rush of the 1800s, which was apparent throughout the trip.
    Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 7 June 2024
  • Think too deeply, though, and the lack of stakes becomes too apparent to ignore.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Evan White to the Braves, in another apparent salary dump.
    Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The Moon will close the apparent distance between the two until in one moment the starlight will be gone!
    Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 13 July 2024
  • This was apparent at an early preview, when Killam emerged as one of the Knights of Ni.
    Sopan Deb, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The reality of the world was very apparent and just hit me at every turn.
    Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 2 Jan. 2024
  • That couldn't be more apparent than PBS' lineup tonight, at least.
    Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Tripp was pronounced dead at the scene with an apparent gunshot wound.
    Racquel Bazos, Baltimore Sun, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Last year in court, Tardy chalked the apparent discrepancies up to poor word choice.
    Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Nowhere is that more apparent than in the top five priorities list for 2024.
    Kevin Kruse, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The teenage victim was found by police on the ground in a first-floor bedroom with apparent gunshot wounds.
    Becca Longmire, Peoplemag, 19 June 2024
  • Video showed the apparent twister roaring across a Wellington road.
    NBC News, 10 Oct. 2024
  • And the local difference will also be apparent at the first real stop: A lounge, with a bar and food.
    oregonlive, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The quality was apparent in the little details like the stitching, high thread count, and feel.
    Theresa Holland, Peoplemag, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Part of the apparent rapid warming is because 2023 began in the tail end of an unusual string of three back-to-back La Niña events.
    Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The last of three people shot in an apparent murder-suicide Thursday in East Price Hill has died.
    Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The Trabant engine came in hot from the east at around 700 feet, then lazily circled over the sleeping city with no apparent plan.
    Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
  • And the broken, gravelly pavement was more apparent through the windshield than through the seats.
    Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The biggest difference, and one that is apparent even at a glance, is the wheelbase, which has been stretched by 5.1 inches.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 28 June 2024
  • The clock speed bumps provide a small across-the-board performance uplift, and the impact of the extra RAM becomes apparent in a few of our tests.
    Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Women and children in apparent distress could be heard in the background.
    Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
  • In their first game without Cedric Mullins, the Orioles played well enough that his absence was at its most apparent with two outs in the ninth inning.
    Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 31 May 2023
  • Then in June, Trump's campaign joined TikTok in an apparent effort to connect with younger voters.
    Bobby Allyn, NPR, 27 Nov. 2024

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