How to Use apparent in a Sentence

apparent

adjective
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  • 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.
  • But the fraught nature of those ties was apparent at the G-20 summit.
    — Karishma Mehrotra, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Evan White to the Braves, in another apparent salary dump.
    — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 27 Mar. 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
  • 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 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
  • The jeweler said this was most apparent in the lines resembling rays of sunlight that project out from the medals’ center.
    — Oscar Holland, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
  • That did not stop them from going at it after Crosby chased Akers about 25 yards down the field in an apparent attempt to strip the ball.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • As good as all that sounds, the size of the remaining issue is easily apparent.
    — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Perhaps nowhere are the pros and cons of AI for businesses as apparent as in the media industry.
    — Catherine Thorbecke, CNN, 22 July 2023
  • All of the qualities are apparent in this Frenchman’s work for Christian Dior.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Cox died later that year of an apparent blood clot in December 2019.
    — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Grubbs’ influence on Cheryl’s life and career is apparent throughout the book.
    — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 17 Feb. 2024
  • That fatigue was apparent during the first vote, when members largely seemed to be going through the motions.
    — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2023
  • What became apparent, said chief curator Beth Finch, was how much was left outside the frame.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
  • There are apparent pros and cons to being at either end of the sensory spectrum, Zeman said.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The first victim was found dead at the scene with apparent gunshot wounds, and five others went to hospitals with two being pronounced dead there.
    — Brie Stimson, Fox News, 14 Oct. 2023
  • But problems with the first of these papers became apparent as the research community dug into the details of the work.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The sweetly alcoholic aroma of the brandy is ever apparent alongside the fresh, floral thyme.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Already apparent is the studied and graceful clumsiness for which his prose is renowned.
    — Benjamin Kunkel, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
  • As your mother-in-law is on a crime spree, the legal and moral arguments for turning her in are readily apparent.
    — Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Aug. 2023

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