Their effects are largely superficial, and serve to foster further plant growth: sawgrass will burn above water, but the roots are preserved.

To the sophisticated Melcenes, the worship of Torak remained largely superficial.

The engine-room had suffered some damage due to falling debris, but on a cursory inspection Robbins thought it largely superficial.

But he called that association largely superficial because he had been in the job only seven months.

Bashed though he was, his injuries seemed largely superficial.

Airport security was largely superficial, and outdated equipment could not detect plastic explosives.

Blade determined the face, neck, and chest cuts were largely superficial.

The similarity of these to the scales of bony fish is largely superficial.

I see a resemblance, largely superficial, between the two images.

The damage inflicted was largely superficial and of no lasting consequence to an army of this size, so the Dwarves did not linger.