"reason" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The ostensible reason was the possibility that costs would skyrocket.
- The ostensible reason for the action was the quality of food served to inmates.
- The ostensible reason given is that people do not honor reservations made earlier in the day or the evening before.
- So long as my only ostensible reason for being here was to look in on Ellen, all's well.
- Sure, they hoped to discourage me, but that was only the ostensible reason.
- The ostensible reason is to create a level playing field for the rural students.
- Or this is the ostensible reason that she does.
- I didn't mention the blues which were the ostensible reason for my trip.
- Phew - and we haven't even got to the play that is our ostensible reason for meeting.
- "A special enactment for some ostensible reason, and the thing is done."
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