Example sentences for: obscurity

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

  • And what amazed me is that here was this ordinary American man, who had been suddenly plucked from obscurity by the hand of fate, and he knew exactly what to do on television!

  • AOL would never have existed if it had been founded here, I am sure, since its employees would have been mocked into obscurity by the digerati.

  • Powell may be the patron saint of all writers laboring in obscurity.

  • Among the nearly 200 pages of hagiography: 1) letters to Time from Harpo Marx, Salvador Dalí, William Randolph Hearst, and Frank Sinatra ("as usual your information stinks," Frank wrote in 1961); 2) an array of great cover images; 3) Time 's most and least prescient comments (in 1983, a prediction that the paparazzi would kill a member of the royal family, and in 1933, a prediction that Hitler was destined for obscurity); and 4) a list of Time neologisms ("socialite," "televangelist," and "World War II").

  • But when Commentary Senior Editor Gabriel Schoenfeld published scathing attacks on the kitschiness and obscurity of contemporary Holocaust scholarship in Commentary and in the New York Times , he found out otherwise.


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