OBSCURE in a Sentence

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208 example sentences for OBSCURE, such as:

1. The details of his life remain obscure.
2. He always speaks in obscure legal jargon.
3. Her poetry is full of obscure literary allusions.
4. It was commanded by an obscure officer named Cambronne.
5. It is as obscure to those who won it as to those who lost it.

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 Meanings and Examples of OBSCURE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
obscure
 v.  darken; make dim or indistinct; conceal in obscurity
Classic Sentence: (186 in 13 pages)
1  This obscure, whimsical, and disagreeable poem was despised upon its first publication, and I only treat it now as it was treated in its own country by contemporaries.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXV
2  There was a celebrated Fourier at the Academy of Science, whom posterity has forgotten; and in some garret an obscure Fourier, whom the future will recall.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817
3  There was no pocket so obscure that it had not a little money in it; no dwelling so lowly that there was not some little joy within it.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MADELEINE
4  With his eyes fixed on heaven, he listened with a sort of aspiration towards all the mysteries of the infinite, those sad voices which sing on the verge of the obscure abyss of death.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
5  This voice, feeble at first, and which had proceeded from the most obscure depths of his conscience, had gradually become startling and formidable, and he now heard it in his very ear.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
6  The nun did not appear to notice this word "perhaps," which communicated an obscure and singular sense to the words of the mayor's speech.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HA...
7  There is in this day an obscure interval, from mid-day to four o'clock; the middle portion of this battle is almost indistinct, and participates in the sombreness of the hand-to-hand conflict.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES
8  It was commanded by an obscure officer named Cambronne.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—THE LAST SQUARE
9  It is as obscure to those who won it as to those who lost it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE?
10  We will say more; an obscure light.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT
11  Then Jean Valjean, like all the sorry fugitives who are seeking to evade the vigilance of the law and social fatality, pursued an obscure and undulating itinerary.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XI—NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN...
12  That name, thus pronounced, at that obscure hour, in that unknown spot, by that strange man, made Jean Valjean start back.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—THE MAN WITH THE BELL
13  Caught between two fires, he had beaten a heroic retreat towards a little dancer, a young girl named Nahenry, who was sixteen like himself, obscure as a cat, and with whom he was in love.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—LUC-ESPRIT
14  She was melancholy with an obscure sadness of which she did not herself know the secret.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR
15  Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are the fields of battle which have their heroes; obscure heroes, who are, sometimes, grander than the heroes who win renown.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT
Example Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  Because the smog will obscure our view, we have to adjust original plan.
2  They put on boring hearings that quickly buried the public in obscure details that had nothing to do with the simple facts.
3  The New Yorker short stories often include esoteric allusions to obscure people and events.
4  With the help of social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, personal trivia is getting less obscure all the time.
5  The emphasis on social integration often served to obscure the real differences within the community.
6  Her poetry is full of obscure literary allusions.
7  He always speaks in obscure legal jargon.
8  The details of his life remain obscure.
9  Pseudo-intellectuals spout obscure verbiage to hide the fact that they have nothing to say, hoping to bamboozle their audiences with highfalutin gobbledygook.
10  The agency plucked Naomi from obscurity and turned her into one of the world's top models.
11  For the lucky few, there's the chance of being plucked from obscurity and thrown into the glamorous world of modelling.
12  The group produced two albums before disappearing into obscurity.
13  He was briefly famous in his twenties but then sank into obscurity.
14  After languishing in obscurity for many years, her early novels have recently been rediscovered.
15  Having completed her task, she rose to draw down the blind, which she had hitherto kept up, by way, I suppose, of making the most of daylight, though dusk was now fast deepening into total obscurity.