Example sentences for: oblivious

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

  • Weisberg's technique is to selectively choose those titles from each critic that illustrate his point, while remaining deliberately oblivious to reviews by the same critic that would weaken it.

  • Time deems the book "definitive" but too harsh: "Morris struggles for fairness but portrays Luce as a calculating, self-indulgent user whose fixed eye on the main chance rendered her oblivious to the concerns of others."

  • "Wrapped and totally immersed within the competitive cocoon of academic medicine, living every day at a great distance from the 'real' world, I was all but oblivious to the fact that a woman's movement had started, and, selfishly, had no idea how other women in my own world were faring."

  • Henry VI was the Jimmy Carter of the 15 th century: Ostentatiously pious, surrounded by mediocrities, and oblivious to England's crumbling international prestige, he managed to cripple the military and bankrupt the government simultaneously.

  • At the end of the day, Louis — apparently oblivious to events in Paris — wrote in his diary, “Rien” (“Nothing”).


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