How to Use on the surface in a Sentence

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• Often, what is on the surface is not the root of the problem.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
• The weird part is that some of the numbers look OK on the surface.
  — Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 23 July 2026
• There’s a lot going on on the surface and under the surface on this one.
  — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
• But when the pool was fully drained last week, no such gashes were visible on the surface.
  — Matt Viser, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026
• The British are very polite on the surface and very reticent to say things.
  — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 29 July 2026
• And that your primary choice of rescue has crashed on the surface, leaving you even more stranded.
  — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 17 July 2026
• Over time, this prevents excessive soap scum and residue from hardening on the surface.
  — Caroline Lubinsky, Martha Stewart, 11 July 2026
• Use a baking soda paste only as a last result, after testing it on the surface first.
  — Sheila Kim, The Spruce, 13 July 2026
• The fabric also has a spill-resistant treatment that keeps liquid on the surface long enough to blot with a dry cloth.
  — Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 July 2026
• The patterns on vinyl floors are only on the surface, while linoleum’s patterns go all the way through the material.
  — Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 23 July 2026
• Although a fairly simple dish on the surface, a pasta salad can very quickly become a mushy, bland mess.
  — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 10 July 2026
• But photos showed that the blue sealant had started to peel away, leaving chunks floating on the surface, while algae growth turned the water green.
  — Marco Gacina, NBC news, 2 July 2026
• Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce just got married, and on the surface, their lives shouldn’t change all that much from before.
  — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 13 July 2026
• Personal belongings from the boat could still be seen floating on the surface as crews searched for missing passengers.
  — James Ward, USA Today, 15 July 2026
• On Wednesday morning, the pond remained murky with some algae and debris visible on the surface of the water.
  — Zuri Primos july 8, Kansas City Star, 8 July 2026
• To determine if this is the issue, observe whether water pools on the surface after rainfall instead of soaking into the ground.
  — Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 19 July 2026
• Moss recalled a bass fishing trip last fall when his son accidentally hooked Brooke in the shoulder while fish were busting on the surface in front of them.
  — Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 20 July 2026
• That discipline shows up in how the company distinguishes between ideas that look similar on the surface.
  — Shelley E. Kohan, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
• Yet the Bible points to something deeper than what’s happening on the surface and invites us to reconsider whether anything real has been lost at all.
  — Liesl Ehmke, Christian Science Monitor, 15 July 2026
• Sorge said that this class of space debris decelerates quicker, and also once on the surface the pieces are also more recognizable than broken up chunks of metal.
  — Leonard David, Space.com, 22 July 2026
• The Muraka offers a single hotel suite with living quarters on the surface and a bedroom 16 feet below the waves.
  — Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 2 July 2026
• This technique presents the illusion of two struggling baitfish simultaneously — one on the surface and the other just below.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 23 July 2026
• Much research has been dedicated to exploiting the waves and oscillations of electrons that are produced on the surface of a metallic structure when photons of light strike it.
  — Dexter Johnson, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Dec. 2016
• Friction creates small fiber balls on the surface, particularly on lower-quality synthetic bouclé.
  — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 21 July 2026
• Friction also causes pilling, particularly on lower-quality synthetic bouclé, leaving small fiber balls on the surface.
  — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 22 July 2026
• Viking-1 took the first-ever images on the surface of Mars, studied the planet's soil and really sparked investigation of whether or not the world may have ever supported life.
  — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 20 July 2026
• Jović has considerably less grass in her CV, but credits her natural ease on the surface with her soccer childhood in Los Angeles.
  — Ava Wallace, New York Times, 5 July 2026
• But going to the Moon to establish a permanent base on the surface will require returning to the same location, so that subsequent missions can build on the results of the previous ones.
  — Clive Neal, The Conversation, 14 July 2026
• This means that the planet is closer to the star than had been thought, sitting comfortably within the habitable zone where temperatures will be suitable for liquid water on the surface of a planet with an atmosphere.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 2 July 2026
• In fact, rovers on the surface of Mars have observed both moons pass in front of the sun, and at best, Phobos (which is larger than Deimos and closer to the planet) covers only a fraction of the solar disk.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 10 July 2026