They probably got very little back in the way of increased energy or enthusiasm from the person they ostensibly came to hear.

The package had ostensibly come from the office Cranston had just called.

He had ostensibly come, as was considered reasonable, to bring his mother what news there was about her daughter.

A friend was engaged to a man who ostensibly came here on a "student" visa but never enrolled in an academic program.

She has ostensibly come to help with the chores, since Moore's grandmother has just died.

Sometimes the abuse would ostensibly come from the mean Sluggo, another clay character.

The aliens have ostensibly come to trade, but just what they mean by this is not clear.

Either one of those events might already have altered the timeline that they had ostensibly come here to repair.

You came up here ostensibly, my dear, to go to the sales.

While they ostensibly came together in the "war on turrr", neither side really had this in mind.