Example sentences for: conspicuously

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

  • That the APA has conspicuously failed to do so is a major factor in motivating ongoing concern about the article.

  • A couple of months ago, when my fellow surgical residents and I went around a table divvying up nights on emergency room duty, one March date sat conspicuously unpicked--Friday the 13 th . C'mon, I thought.

  • The movie's simple-minded Tory-baiting "wears its bleeding heart conspicuously on its sleeve," says Stephen Holden in the New York Times . "You might feel like one of Thatcher's miners--manipulated, misled and maneuvered into an emotional corner," says John Anderson in the Los Angeles Times . The New Yorker 's Anthony Lane, however, praises the movie's feel for the British working class, "forced to sustain their flagging souls by quickness of wit."

  • Languages influence one another most conspicuously in phonology.

  • At the moment of Murayama's remarks, nine Cabinet members were conspicuously visiting a shrine to Japan's military dead--some of whom had been executed for war crimes.


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