How to Use conspicuous in a Sentence

conspicuous

adjective
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  • The sign was placed in a very conspicuous spot.
  • The bird has a conspicuous red head.
  • There were a number of conspicuous changes to the building.
  • She felt very conspicuous in her pink coat.
  • The business was a conspicuous success.
  • He was uncomfortable about his conspicuous weight gain.
  • Most conspicuous of all are the glinting hobnails in the sole of the boot on the left.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019
  • The change in tone and the loss of shame and guilt in her last novel are conspicuous.
    — Ankita Chakraborty, Longreads, 8 June 2018
  • In fact, there was a conspicuous lack of them at the piers that day.
    — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Sep. 2021
  • But cheers came from a conspicuous corner of the world.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The movie is at its best when those traces are most conspicuous.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
  • So far, the fight over fur has been far more conspicuous.
    — J. David Goodman, New York Times, 14 July 2019
  • Leafy greens are a conspicuous absence from most of the book’s recipes.
    — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The heroine of the piece is a naked mole rat named Sweety, a conspicuous weirdo.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2019
  • Of course, the most conspicuous visual changes are right in the cockpit.
    — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Many of the old portraits have been taken down or moved to a less conspicuous place.
    — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2021
  • But conspicuous in their absence are the bulk of the leaders of the world’s major economies.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2023
  • But over the past two to three years, consumers have seen a conspicuous shift in the look of the poinsettia.
    — Adrian Higgins, kansascity, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Miller has long been the most conspicuous obstacle to a deal.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Look for a straight black bill and black legs with conspicuous yellow feet.
    — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 11 July 2018
  • The more conspicuous of them was a tower of muscle with a blond flattop and shades.
    — New York Times, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Bertha was a hundred and four years old, but the decline in her care was conspicuous.
    — Yasmin Rafiei, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2022
  • In the long term, though, the most conspicuous effects of the IoT will be in how the world works.
    — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
  • What about the jagged cut near his left thumb, which had been conspicuous when police met him?
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2021
  • Each supported the other in a conspicuous time of need.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Wine bottles are conspicuous on the beach or the tennis court, after all.
    — Dave McIntyre, chicagotribune.com, 26 Dec. 2017
  • The summer heat made my milling around the freezer section less conspicuous.
    — Felice Neals, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2021
  • But their absence in the team’s passing game was conspicuous.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 7 June 2021
  • Zuckerberg’s colossal drop this year was conspicuous in a list that hasn’t changed all that much over the past year.
    — Don Reisinger, Fortune, 19 June 2019
  • Tellingly, no conspicuous voice has been raised to accuse him of sour grapes or being a bad sport.
    — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2017

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