Example sentences for: obscurity

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

  • It will overrepresent those whose passing strikes others as newsworthy and underrepresent those who end their days in retired obscurity in some sunny clime.

  • Most groups go too far, partly because the obscurity of their jargon sets them apart from others, thereby increasing their prestige.

  • Under Byzantine rule the city of Pericles sank into deep provincial obscurity.

  • But perhaps the most conspicuous drawback to PSMs is their newness, and resulting obscurity: almost half of graduates say they are “not sure” employers will value their PSM, or the unique skill set it affords.

  • I think both men need to stop churning out work and think about a kind of settled obscurity in working long and hard on some project that would absorb them completely and passionately, and simply quit producing for public consumption a series of well-financed distractions.


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