Example sentences for: arcane

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

  • Some have experiential reference for some people but are obscurely metaphoric for others, like catbird seat vantage point, which is often treated as arcane but which is meaningful to anyone who has seen the way a catbird alights on a tree branch from where the surrounding territory can be surveyed for provender or predators.

  • Bloomington Horrible-Terrible (Herald-Telephone, an arcane name from a time when Indiana was impressed by telephones.

  • Furthermore, it calls to mind the question of whether even experts who see the estimate of 76 million (which appears, usually presented as fact, in almost everything written about foodborne illness in the U.S.) have any idea that it hinges so significantly on this one, rather arcane, guesstimate about how much of the illness caused by one pathogen is attributable to foodborne transmission.

  • As can be seen, this book is a veritable treasure trove of arcane information.

  • The community and the DCI's authorities have become arcane matters, understood only by initiates after long study.


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