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
• 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
• In terms of the more superficial sense of comity, this is not true.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 2018
• The question makes sense, in at least a superficial way.
  — al, 23 Aug. 2019
• So the language has to be very glitzy and superficial and populist.
  — Steven Leckart, WIRED, 19 Oct. 2010
• On the flip side, air signs can also be flighty and superficial.
  — Madison Feller, ELLE, 28 Feb. 2023
• It’s not just superficial shape that unifies the five evolved crab forms.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 19 Oct. 2020
• The other man suffered a superficial stab wound in the encounter.
  — oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Once the shoes are moisture-free, your first step is to brush away any superficial dirt.
  — Gia Yetikyel, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2023
• The damage on the left front side was superficial, police said.
  — Erika Butler, The Aegis, 31 Aug. 2017
• This sign is not one for superficial small talk or rushing about.
  — Isabelle Kliger, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 June 2019
• Life is too precious to be worried about the superficial.
  — Mika Brzezinski, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2020
• These fungi invade the superficial layers of the skin, hair or nails.
  — Dr. Patty Khuly, miamiherald, 18 May 2018
• 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
• The woman rushed them and stabbed one officer in the chest, leaving a superficial wound.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 14 Aug. 2021
• 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
• The same can’t be said for Alzheimer’s other than on the most superficial level.
  — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 12 June 2018
• There’s a superficial sense of a tsunami hitting the Fox shores.
  — The Hive, 5 Apr. 2017
• But many of their assumptions are superficial at best or just plain wrong.
  — Meir Statman, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2020
• The better-for-you allure of it could be as superficial as the wrapper itself.
  — Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2019
• In fact, our testers noted no damage save for a few superficial scuffs.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2023
• To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial.
  — Taylor Weatherby, Billboard, 20 May 2018
• Yara had a dozen knife lacerations to her throat and back, which were too superficial to have caused her death.
  — Nicholas Farrell, Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2014
• The cat eye might be an attempt, however superficial, to draw a line.
  — Thessaly La Force, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 1 May 2024