How to use "superficial" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "superficial" in popular movie and book plots

  • The novel is set in an unidentified Penal colony in the South Pacific, which bears a superficial resemblance to Sydney.  - Bring Larks and Heroes
  • The media on American hi-def TV shows glimpses of a technological dystopia, although in a positive light with superficial spin-doctoring.  - Sleep Dealer
  • The film's plot is loosely based on the novel, with some superficial differences.  - The Ugly Swans (film)
  • She is overwhelmed by its superficial beauty and shallow entertainments.  - Exodus (Bertagna novel)
  • Anthony goes through life enjoying his superficial ways.  - Dasepo Naughty Girls
  • In fact, Pedro was beginning to tire of the superficial nature of his many relationships.  - Cachorro
  • Abhi feels cheated and starts to hate all the women and thinks that they all are superficial and treacherous.  - Manmadhudu
  • Similar to Steeplejack and The Prophet, Greer feels people have become too reliant on surrogates for superficial reasons.  - The Surrogates
  • The conversation shows a superficial understanding of faith, and the friends make many comical errors about the church.  - Grace (short story)
  • Just as soon as it appears, the unknown self evaporates and recomposes itself into the familiar attitudes of the superficial self.  - One, No One and One Hundred Thousand
  • Later it is discovered Dusty only received a superficial wound and was knocked out.  - The Lawless Frontier
  • He asks difficult questions – and the superficial answers of the supposedly wise adults no longer suffice.  - The Story of an African Farm
  • The storyline in Yield to the Night bears a superficial resemblance to the Ruth Ellis case, which had occurred the previous year.  - Yield to the Night
  • Red Shirt, who presents himself as a refined scholar, turns out to be highly superficial and self-serving.  - Botchan
  • She reveals that what initially attracted her to her husband were in fact his superficial qualities: looks and money.  - Alice (1990 film)
  • Hal Larson (Jack Black) is a superficial man whose fixation on the physical beauty of women gets in the way of seeing their inner beauty.  - Shallow Hal

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