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.
• Video showed the apparent twister roaring across a Wellington road.
  — NBC News, 10 Oct. 2024
• Lost growth: The biggest hit of all is not going to be readily apparent.
  — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 9 Oct. 2024
• The lack of an engine note makes wind and road noise more apparent, and big bumps produce loud rattles from the cabin behind.
  — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 22 Apr. 2023
• The apparent slowdown in results belies the steady gains being made in various sectors.
  — Sylvain Duranton, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
• Evidence of concern is apparent in pockets of the bond market, however.
  — Steven T. Dennis, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2023
• Although the demonstration posted to Twitter is a bit too clunky to be used as a true AR tool for now, the promise is apparent.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2023
• Another apparent tornado touched down in Fort Myers, snapping tree limbs and tearing a gas station’s canopy to shreds.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024