How to Use outwardly in a Sentence

outwardly

adverb

• Though extremely nervous, she was able to remain outwardly calm during the interview.
• Outwardly, their marriage seemed quite normal.
• The two brothers may be outwardly similar, but their personalities couldn't be more different.
• At the risk of being killed, Jews had no choice but to outwardly leave their faith.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2022
• The white duck-bill N-95 mask comes in 2 sizes, small and regular, and is shaped outwardly in the shape of a duck's mouth.
  — Gabriela Miranda, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2022
• The white duck-bill N95 mask comes in two sizes, small and regular, and is shaped outwardly like a duck's mouth.
  — USA Today, 7 Jan. 2022
• The Sport Slim Band doesn’t look outwardly rugged, so the band works just as well for casual use.
  — Brad Moon, Forbes, 17 May 2022
• In the film, Blanco is a man who, outwardly at least, seems to have it all together.
  — Jamie Lang, Variety, 14 Dec. 2021
• Tóibín, with a style as spare as Mann’s is ornate, brings a measure of warmth to an outwardly chilly figure.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
• Romain is probably the most outwardly messy boy on the show.
  — Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 29 Nov. 2021
• Because Hawkins seemed so outwardly vibrant, his death shocked the world.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2022
• Its near-identical twin, at least outwardly, is the 914/6.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 1 May 2023
• So that means CEOs need to take a look inward before trying to appeal outwardly, Patrick says.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2022
• The Democrats have been outwardly very cordial about Sinema leaving the Party.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2023
• In the feature, Brown plays Princess Elodie, an outwardly typical damsel in distress who learns to fight for herself.
  — Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2024
• To be frank, TikTok is full of outwardly bad wellness advice.
  — Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 17 Sep. 2022
• This is the first time Palmer has outwardly addressed the drama that started with Jackson’s post in early July.
  — Thania Garcia, Variety, 16 Aug. 2023
• Students crisscrossed Harvard Yard last month, hoods up as a cold rain fell on a campus that was outwardly calm and quiet.
  — Susan Svrluga, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2024
• Yet the extent to which that bolstered the overall system is viewed with temperance, at least outwardly.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Sep. 2022
• Cox didn’t outwardly oppose Utah Sen. Derick Kitchen’s bill to raise the minimum age to purchase a firearm to 21.
  — Saige Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 June 2022
• Trust Barron remains outwardly optimistic that mining will start soon, even though the past few months have been tough for TMC.
  — Olive Heffernan, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023
• The airline is outwardly optimistic that a strike will not occur.
  — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2022
• His writing and conduct outwardly improve at a rapid clip.
  — Jasmine Liu, The New Republic, 4 Aug. 2023
• Some observers believe that the reason the studios aren’t celebrating, at least not outwardly, is because the strike has come at a great cost.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Sep. 2023
• With the role of Lt. Daniels, Mr. Reddick said the challenge was to show the tensions of being outwardly in control but unraveling inside.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
• Here, in an outwardly plush thriller, Puenzo expose the circles of gender abuse, like Dante’s version of hell, at a beauty pageant training school.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 27 Sep. 2022
• There are moments in the film where, outwardly, little is happening, but, inwardly, time seems to dilate to an epochal scale.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2022
• Those films felt more outwardly ambitious, whereas this one feels like a miniature.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2022
• Hilary Banks is the classy and polished girl boss of the family, and Carlton Banks is the outwardly prim and proper student, who wears only pants that stop above his ankle.
  — Anaja I. Smith, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Mar. 2023
• In France, the progress brought by #MeToo has been commonly rejected by the most conservative voters and outwardly embraced by those in the center and left.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 11 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 28 May 2024