Example Sentences

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Beyond them, a young couple seated on a bench obliviously kissed each other.

From Slate • Oct. 30, 2025

It was worth a two-shot penalty, doubled because she had obliviously signed for the wrong score in the third round.

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2024

Feimster built a set and a following with her routines about Hooters and her mother, about growing up obliviously gay in the South, with a homespun storytelling style that is instantly disarming.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 27, 2023

They like to do this constantly, relentlessly, obliviously on practically every fourth profile I see.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2019

Just barely leaving the cab door open, she walked briskly and obliviously, like visiting Hollywood royalty, into the building.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger