Example sentences for: obscure

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

  • Some people have better memories than others, and we can admire those who, despite the extraordinary pressure of being under the klieg lights in a TV studio before an audience, are able to dredge up obscure information in response to quizmasters' questions.

  • The aetiology of the adverse effects associated with mefloquine use remains obscure.

  • (b) The term element itself, while unquestionably from Latin—Cicero gives it as a gloss for Greek stoicheion, series ( stoichiometry is the calculation of relative quantities of reagents and their end-products in a chemical reaction)—is of obscure derivation.

  • He did to some extent, (though deasil was not in, so I sought in vain under shadow for antiscian , which is about as obscure as one can get.

  • On the table were things they had found: a note from Eleanor Roosevelt expressing outrage about some now obscure postal reorganization bill, and a yellowed copy of the Chicago Sun-Times from July 15, 1965, the day after Adlai Stevenson died.


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