Example Sentences

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It’s all too easy for out-of-state TV anchors and reporters to focus on celebritude and superficialities when dealing with California politics.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2021

Don’t wander too far in the weeds, but try to find some way to get him to move past the few superficialities he’ll have memorized.

From Slate • Sep. 25, 2016

Right now, pundits are largely focused on the superficialities of nomenclature.

From Salon • Nov. 5, 2014

For all the dissimilarities in eras — we were greeted with yellow ribbons and parades, superficialities meant to atone for mistakes — the homecoming experience for American soldiers and Marines remains a messy, complicated affair.

From Washington Post

These points of attraction were mostly superficialities, it is true, like the fashion of clothes or the conventionalism of accepted social customs.

From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar