Example sentences for: obscene

How can you use “obscene” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Back during the Nixon administration, Supreme Court decisions permitted some "obscene" materials to be distributed only if they were combined with other matters that had "redeeming social value."

  • In that year, the Obscene Publications Act first introduced a defense of artistic merit.

  • They were spending obscene amounts of money on litigation--as much as $750 million a year, by one account--and the strain of wondering if this case would be the one that broke the bank couldn't have made working at these companies much fun.

  • Maksoud, a former Arab League diplomat now heading the Center for the Global South at the American University in Washington, noted a "frightening and obscene" convergence between Serbia's ethnic cleansing and the behavior of NATO, which has taken international law into its own hands.

  • This is on a par with the attribution of leave me be to a Celtic origin having something to do with a warning against raiding hives or the ascription of the origin of the name of an obscene prosthetic device to a woman from Water Isle (the Duchess d'Île d'eau ).


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast