“While we do not insist on you taking to the streets on a bicycle, we do encourage a less ostentatious lifestyle.”

“In short, she was a self-centered, ostentatious woman who considered herself a cut above her neighbors.”

“He liked using ostentatious words to impress the audience with his vocabulary.”

“The poem's ostensible subjects are a typical enough roll-call of his concerns.”

“The people who are the ostensible subjects of these photographs are hauntingly absent.”

“There is a remarkable piece of dialogue on just this subject in Dr Faustus, although the ostensible topic is music.”

“Those results are ostensive evidence implying the contribution of apparent motion mechanisms to ILM perception.”

“It serves mainly to provide the regime with ostensive evidence of its power and technological progress.”

“Like nearly all definitions, Bell's is really more ostensive than analytic, better achieved by pointing than by phrasing.”