Example sentences for: arcane

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

  • That's not because their arcane disputes held any fascination for most Americans at the time.

  • Working nimbly, Satan carves up this guy's torso with arcane writing and, using scalpels and scissors and other handy hospital accessories, crucifies him on the ceiling.

  • There’s something in the intricacy of its arcane rules and controlled passion that appeals to the Indian people.

  • The Wu-Tang Clan has entered the "stagnant hip-hop scene like a slap in the face, parading its strikingly original gutter funk like a ghetto peacock" (Matt Diehl, Entertainment Weekly ). Critics admire the group's eclectic influences--including funk, flamenco, and psychedelic--and its lyrics, "as dense, obsessed, prolific and full of popular and arcane references as a Pynchon novel" (Neil Strauss, the New York Times ). (Clips are available here.)

  • What is at stake is not a set of arcane ecological questions, but rather questions that are central to determining whether ecological and conservation lessons learnt in one area can be applied more broadly.


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