superficial

In a sentence

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

• The burn was superficial, reaching only the outer skin, so the nurse dressed it and sent him home.

  Medicine

• A superficial glance at the print showed nothing, but under a loupe the retouching around the eyes was obvious.

  Photography

• The audit was superficial, checking invoice totals for one week and never opening the storage records at all.

  Business

• The survey found only superficial damage to the facade, cracked render with the brick behind it perfectly sound.

  Architecture

• Their friendship stayed superficial, all weather and weekend plans, and neither knew what the other feared.

  Psychology

• Superficial cracks in the varnish looked alarming, but the paint beneath had not moved in three centuries.

  Art

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More Academic words

• attain
• formatting
• rationality
• unifying
• comprise
• elicit
• thereby
• maximizing
• degrade
• stabilized
• cyclic
• surveying