Example sentences for: obscure

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

  • Anticipating further conflicts, President Nixon's congressional allies inserted fast track into a relatively obscure section of an uncontroversial 1974 trade bill.

  • Soon after war broke out in the former Yugoslavia in 1991, the United Nations used a previously obscure section of its charter to convene the first international war-crimes tribunal since Nuremberg and Tokyo.

  • Its origins are obscure, but we know that it is distantly related to Finnish and belongs to the Finno-Ugric group of languages.

  • Therefore, what you'd most want to know from a policy standpoint--how much education can increase opportunity--isn't dealt with in the book, except in two obscure footnotes.

  • Still, there are passages that, while perfectly clear in the Spanish-language original, re-emerge in translation as pointlessly obscure.


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