apparent

In a sentence

Six example sentences with apparent, each labelled with its topic.

• By the third print the flaw in the lens became apparent, a soft smear along the left edge.

  Photography

• The twist is not apparent on first viewing, yet every clue sits in plain sight during the opening scene.

  Movies

• The narrator's unreliability becomes apparent only when two characters describe the same dinner in flatly contradictory ways.

  Literature

• By the second quarter it was apparent that the visitors could not handle the press, and the lead grew fast.

  Basketball

• The apparent profit vanished once the auditors counted the inventory that had been booked twice.

  Finance

• The apparent motion of the sun across the sky is really the earth turning, as every schoolchild eventually learns.

  Science

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More Academic words

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