Example sentences for: obscures

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

  • (As Strachey makes clear, Nightingale's fake "lady with the lamp" image as the mother of modern nursing completely obscures her real significance, which was as a ruthlessly effective administrative reformer, first of a single military hospital and later of the entire British military-hospital system.)

  • In his winning design, a waitress tips a champagne glass forward, and the cascading foam obscures pretty much everything but her cleavage.

  • Rhetoric that obscures the debate.

  • Even if his private life were relevant, once again Jones' unrelieved disdain for his subject obscures any possible connections.

  • It obscures the fact that Levinthal's territory in the Western series is much the same as in "Hitler Moves East," a liminal realm of fantasy where the most successful images--like that rearing horse, or a man hanging from a noose on a stunted tree--toe the line between real and make-believe.


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