Example sentences for: obscurity

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

  • ..’ The lawyer is also habituated to doublets and triplets like fit and proper; force and effect; give, bequeath and devise; null and void , and rest, residue, and remainder . These seem to me among the less reprehensible, for they are understandable to ordinary people and are objectionable mainly on the grounds of repetition rather than obscurity.

  • The second selection's obscurity didn't cheer him up: "Ugh, can't do you the Washburn book."

  • From then on, until its 1970s comeback with electronic and other export goods, Macau sank into obscurity.

  • Noah Kaskie is a cripple working slowly in comparative obscurity, trying to map a gene and worrying about money and love.

  • Among the nearly 200 pages of hagiography: 1) letters to Time from Harpo Marx, Salvador Dalí, William Randolph Hearst, and Frank Sinatra ("as usual your information stinks," Frank wrote in 1961); 2) an array of great cover images; 3) Time 's most and least prescient comments (in 1983, a prediction that the paparazzi would kill a member of the royal family, and in 1933, a prediction that Hitler was destined for obscurity); and 4) a list of Time neologisms ("socialite," "televangelist," and "World War II").


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