Example Sentences

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He played the melody of his chosen standard abstrusely, but with enough distinguishing features to spark recognition.

From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2010

Italian Philosopher Benedetto Croce murmurs abstrusely of "expression."

From Time Magazine Archive

Esthetes looked at landscapes, still life, murmured abstrusely of planes, tonality, feeling.

From Time Magazine Archive

Evidence for Chandrasekhar's picture of the primordial universe, published in the Astrophysical Journal, is abstrusely mathematical.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their number is too great, and too many of them are abstrusely technical.

From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Bachelor, Joseph M. (Joseph Morris)