CONSPICUOUS in a Sentence

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As Ahab now glided from the dejected Delight, the strange life-buoy hanging at the Pequod's stern came into conspicuous relief.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONSPICUOUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
conspicuous
 a.  noticeable; prominent; easy to notice; obvious
Classic Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
1  Nobody will see you in the back room anyway, and Melly won't be conspicuous.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  And that awful Captain Butler, making you so conspicuous, and he's a terrible, terrible person, Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
3  He is a thoroughly bad character who would take advantage of your youth and innocence to make you conspicuous and publicly disgrace you and your family.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
4  He liked the ease and glitter of the life, and the lustre conferred on him by being a member of this group of rich and conspicuous people.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
5  His grand distinguishing feature, the fin, from which he derives his name, is often a conspicuous object.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
6  This rampart is pierced by several sally-ports for the convenience of ships and whales; conspicuous among which are the straits of Sunda and Malacca.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
7  As Ahab now glided from the dejected Delight, the strange life-buoy hanging at the Pequod's stern came into conspicuous relief.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 131. The Pequod Meets The Delight.
8  The ill-assorted and injudicious attire of the individual only served to render his awkwardness more conspicuous.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
9  The clothes of Heyward, which rendered him peculiarly conspicuous, were repeatedly cut, and once blood was drawn from a slight wound in his arm.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
10  One warrior in particular, a man of wild and ferocious mien, had been conspicuous for the attention he had given to the words of the speaker.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
11  of the most conspicuous of the chiefs who fought in the.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
12  Magua was conspicuous in this party, both by his fierce and savage mien, and by the air of haughty authority he yet maintained.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
13  In all things noble which he attempted, his own meanness shone most conspicuous.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
14  Another hill, and their pursuers had evidently caught sight of their wagon, whose white cloth-covered top made it conspicuous at some distance, and a loud yell of brutal triumph came forward on the wind.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
15  Profound silence; silence so deep that even their breathings were conspicuous in the hush.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
Example Sentence:
1  It was an age of conspicuous consumption — those who had money liked to display it.
2  Bay windows are a conspicuous feature of his architecture.
3  In China, her blonde hair was conspicuous.
4  The notice must be displayed in a conspicuous place.
5  Next morning, Miss Scatcherd wrote in conspicuous characters on a piece of pasteboard the word "Slattern."
6  Local women were conspicuously absent from the meeting.