Example sentences for: obscure

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

  • Even nowadays one comes across dialect words whose meaning is obscure.

  • A man who can use that issue to obscure his more serious weaknesses, underscore his strengths, and besmirch his opponent can't be accused of showing too little rationality and discipline.

  • A new biography of Billy Tipton--an obscure jazzman who was revealed, only at death, to have been a jazzwoman--elevates its subject into the "pantheon of legendary women who have successfully passed as men" (Holly Brubach, the New York Times Book Review ). Middlebrook, a professor at Stanford, uses Tipton to support the postmodernist contention that gender is a historic construction, but critics mostly wax prurient.

  • Andalucía has an abundance of natural parks, ranging from those with international fame to more obscure, remote nature preserves.

  • Critics praise the Long Island duo's latest offering as "their best album since 1990's Business As Usual " (Rob Hart, CMJ ). Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith's music is up to their usual high standards, but even more impressive are their lyrics, which "weave together tapestries of obscure pop-culture references and rap history homages that could keep lesser rhymers in business forever" (Matt Diehl, Entertainment Weekly ).


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