OBSCURITY in a Sentence

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For OBSCURITY, below is one of 208 sentences:
This manuscript, in which she already perceived more light than obscurity, produced upon her the effect of a half-open sanctuary.

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 Meanings and Examples of OBSCURITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
obscurity
 n.  quality or state of being obscure; darkness; privacy; inconspicuousness
Classic Sentence: (186 in 13 pages)
1  This was not alone the obscurity of night; it was caused by very low-hanging clouds which seemed to rest upon the hill itself, and which were mounting and filling the whole sky.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
2  There was nothing around him but an obscurity in which his gaze was lost, and a silence which engulfed his voice.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
3  In Paris, at least, no one knows you, and this obscurity is a garment.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS
4  Penetrate, at certain hours, past the livid face of a human being who is engaged in reflection, and look behind, gaze into that soul, gaze into that obscurity.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
5  The obscurity was such that he did not fear to accost the first lawyer whom he met.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTION...
6  However, he was thought to be dead, and this still further increased the obscurity which had gathered about him.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XI—NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN...
7  All at once, on turning round, he thought he perceived in the portion of the street which he had just passed through, far off in the obscurity, something which was moving.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727
8  He expected to find a great deal of light on the subject there; he found a great deal of obscurity.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
9  If one did not know it, the voice ceased, the wall became silent once more, as though the terrified obscurity of the sepulchre had been on the other side of it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS
10  The obscurity which bathed the grated box arose from the fact that the parlor, which had a window on the side of the world, had none on the side of the convent.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS
11  Then the twilight obscurity closed in again.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
12  There were no longer either arbors, or bowling greens, or tunnels, or grottos; there was a magnificent, dishevelled obscurity falling like a veil over all.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—CHANGE OF GATE
13  The broad horizontal sheet of light severed the file in two parts, illuminating heads and bodies, leaving feet and wheels in the obscurity.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG
14  This manuscript, in which she already perceived more light than obscurity, produced upon her the effect of a half-open sanctuary.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER
15  Being of the past, he belonged to night; and obscurity was in keeping with his grandeur.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
Example Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  The agency plucked Naomi from obscurity and turned her into one of the world's top models.
2  For the lucky few, there's the chance of being plucked from obscurity and thrown into the glamorous world of modelling.
3  The group produced two albums before disappearing into obscurity.
4  He was briefly famous in his twenties but then sank into obscurity.
5  After languishing in obscurity for many years, her early novels have recently been rediscovered.
6  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.
7  Van Gogh was so disregarded that he committed suicide in obscurity as an artistic failure.
8  According as the shifting obscurity and flickering gleam hovered here or glanced there, it was now the bearded physician, Luke that bent his brow.
9  Before the most recent change, the social-media site did a decent job of protecting privacy through obscurity, especially for teenagers.
10  Because the smog will obscure our view, we have to adjust original plan.
11  They put on boring hearings that quickly buried the public in obscure details that had nothing to do with the simple facts.
12  The New Yorker short stories often include esoteric allusions to obscure people and events.
13  With the help of social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, personal trivia is getting less obscure all the time.
14  The emphasis on social integration often served to obscure the real differences within the community.
15  Her poetry is full of obscure literary allusions.