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How To Use patently In A Sentence

• The treatment is patently not working.
• The university has falsely combined these patently contradictory goals, making opaque the real differences between them.
• Separate Baptists essentially remained Calvinist in their soteriology but were patently aggressive in their evangelism and missiology.
• What the Vatican II Fathers said on this subject is readily understood, not as a patently absurd claim that Muslims believe God is three coeternal, coessential, and coequal Persons, but as a simple acknowledgement of those few matters of faith where Muslims agree with the Truth. Tissier de Mallerais speaks The details of the doctrinal talks
• The treatment is patently not working.
• This account of seemingly genuine claimants, reckless pretenders, daffy charlatans and patently mad pretenders to the French crown is the stuff of high farce.
• From describing the Iraqi insurgency as being in its "last throes" (when it was patently just getting revved up for its second throes) to calling the acceptability of waterboarding a "no-brainer" (when even the people who conduct it say that the information it yields cannot be relied upon), he continues to defend the indefensible with the implausible and the discredited. Ellis Weiner: International Man of Mystery
• So clumsy, so unmilitary, so patently allergic to soldierly duty except where it kept him with his beloved wireles set. IN LOVE AND WAR
• We don't want it be used by a small number of people who may use the opportunity of public hearings under privilege to make patently untruthful allegations.
• This annual death toll amounts to 10 million - a patently unsustainable figure.