Example Sentences

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Now the LSU fans ask Jimmy and Robin Burrow for photos, and Joe teases them about their conspicuousness in their purple-and-gold No. 9 jerseys.

From Washington Post • Nov. 7, 2019

Much of our time is spent trying to shrink, to alleviate our extreme conspicuousness.

From The Guardian • Jun. 2, 2018

The fundamental weakness of ’’80s-era, “RoboCop”-ian businessman bad guys is their conspicuousness.

From Salon • Jun. 24, 2017

What I’d like to witness anew is something towards which I’ve become inured to its oddity and conspicuousness, that I now accept as commonplace.

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2015

Here, as in Morosini’s, the images of the Virtues have no ironical power, although their great conspicuousness marks the increase of the boastful feeling in the treatment of monuments.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) by Ruskin, John