Example sentences for: obscurely

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

  • The other day, I felt obscurely pained to see a pretty girl on the subway with a big silver ring in the middle of her face, hanging from a hole in the central partition of her nose.

  • In his characteristically diverting and obscurely erudite way, Pennington describes this discrepancy between public perception and magnitude of risk by referring to an article on railway accidents published in 1859 by one Dionysius Lardner.

  • Some have experiential reference for some people but are obscurely metaphoric for others, like catbird seat vantage point, which is often treated as arcane but which is meaningful to anyone who has seen the way a catbird alights on a tree branch from where the surrounding territory can be surveyed for provender or predators.

  • But allowing that the language is well adapted to a stenographer's very private diary and of its particular time and place, we find little that is obscurely archaic in its style.

  • Le Monde 's front-page cartoon showed the traditional figure of death, with a syringe in one hand and a scythe sporting the stars and stripes in the other, facing a sea of television cameras and announcing, somewhat obscurely, "Me, I've had an adventure with the Governor of Texas."


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