How to Use superficial in a Sentence

superficial

adjective

• They had a superficial knowledge of the topic.
• The storm only caused superficial damage to the building.
• These superficial changes don't address the underlying problem.
• And kind of playing with things at the outside of the edges in very superficial ways?
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2023
• In terms of the more superficial sense of comity, this is not true.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 2018
• The image is a superficial image on the upper fibers of the cloth.
  — Joanne Berger Dumound/special To Cleveland.com., cleveland.com, 19 Feb. 2018
• The question makes sense, in at least a superficial way.
  — al, 23 Aug. 2019
• Once the shoes are moisture-free, your first step is to brush away any superficial dirt.
  — Gia Yetikyel, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2023
• On the flip side, air signs can also be flighty and superficial.
  — Madison Feller, ELLE, 28 Feb. 2023
• The same can’t be said for Alzheimer’s other than on the most superficial level.
  — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 12 June 2018
• That gives the film a superficial resemblance to the quest at the heart of Saving Private Ryan.
  — David Faris, The Week, 28 June 2022
• So the language has to be very glitzy and superficial and populist.
  — Steven Leckart, WIRED, 19 Oct. 2010
• Nor was its appeal superficial, like some of the other items pictured on the side of the ice cream truck.
  — Steve Kolowich, Washington Post, 26 July 2022
• Your image needs a bit of editing, Pisces (not at all in the superficial sense!).
  — Colin Bedell, Cosmopolitan, 10 Dec. 2017
• It’s not just superficial shape that unifies the five evolved crab forms.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 19 Oct. 2020
• That is not to suggest that Moser’s project is in any way superficial.
  — Nina Siegal, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2019
• Alas, the comments of the Twitter hive mind are rather superficial.
  — Kim Sajet, Smithsonian, 16 Jan. 2018
• These blows came alongside the superficial changes of having his blonde locks and right eye cut away.
  — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 May 2018
• There’s a superficial sense of a tsunami hitting the Fox shores.
  — The Hive, 5 Apr. 2017
• The damage on the left front side was superficial, police said.
  — Erika Butler, The Aegis, 31 Aug. 2017
• The other man suffered a superficial stab wound in the encounter.
  — oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2020
• The world likes to accuse L.A. of being a tacky, superficial town that lacks a sense of tradition.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• In the best cases, the wound is superficial and the animal survives.
  — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 7 Sep. 2023
• The woman rushed them and stabbed one officer in the chest, leaving a superficial wound.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 14 Aug. 2021
• These fungi invade the superficial layers of the skin, hair or nails.
  — Dr. Patty Khuly, miamiherald, 18 May 2018
• The better-for-you allure of it could be as superficial as the wrapper itself.
  — Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2019
• This sign is not one for superficial small talk or rushing about.
  — Isabelle Kliger, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 June 2019
• Take a journey through the superficial depression in the following playlist and get back to me.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• News is rarely made at such events and both the questions and answers tend to be repetitive and superficial.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2021
• Life is too precious to be worried about the superficial.
  — Mika Brzezinski, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 9 May 2024