Example Sentences

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Call options, which increase in value when stocks advance, are extraordinarily active and are attracting buyers even though prices are obscenely expensive.

From Barron's • Jun. 17, 2026

The blockbuster made Mr. Lucas obscenely rich and that allowed him to build the independent Bay Area studio Mr. Coppola could never quite make happen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

He has not been on a track in more than a year now, and does not miss squatting obscenely heavy amounts in the gym and endless hours indoors on static bikes.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2025

It was an obscenely hot day, and I waited outside Bryant’s dressing room while they finished drying his sweat-soaked shirt with a hair dryer before he came out and cheerfully shook my hand.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2025

Like a big, soft jellyfish it floats into our shell-hole and lolls there obscenely.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque