Example sentences for: obscure

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

  • In this obscure pantheon, a place must be reserved for Klaus Kinski, the erratically gifted Polish-German actor and noted mal vivant , who tried to publish the English version of his autobiography in 1988 under the massively ironic title All I Need is Love . The book was caught in a copyright dispute between Random House and a West German publisher, with huge libel problems looming; it was withdrawn shortly after publication, and became one of the books most often stolen from public libraries.

  • Several of the personal names in the book are popular boys' names amongst Mormon families today; especially popular are Jared (which is also the name of an obscure Biblical personage, but the Book of Mormon character has a far greater profile), Helaman and Nephi .

  • Even nowadays one comes across dialect words whose meaning is obscure.

  • He seems to have had one when he was a baby, but now bits of fabric are conveniently placed to obscure it.

  • So you might get the idea that her views on the Nazis were muted--she did remain in an obscure semirural corner of Berlin through the war, after all.


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