How to Use conspicuous in a Sentence

conspicuous

adjective

• The sign was placed in a very conspicuous spot.
• The bird has a conspicuous red head.
• There were a number of conspicuous changes to the building.
• She felt very conspicuous in her pink coat.
• The business was a conspicuous success.
• He was uncomfortable about his conspicuous weight gain.
• In the long term, though, the most conspicuous effects of the IoT will be in how the world works.
  — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
• In fact, there was a conspicuous lack of them at the piers that day.
  — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Sep. 2021
• Most conspicuous of all are the glinting hobnails in the sole of the boot on the left.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019
• The change in tone and the loss of shame and guilt in her last novel are conspicuous.
  — Ankita Chakraborty, Longreads, 8 June 2018
• The heroine of the piece is a naked mole rat named Sweety, a conspicuous weirdo.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2019
• But the split with the golfers born after 1985 could not be more conspicuous.
  — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2022
• The movie is at its best when those traces are most conspicuous.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
• But cheers came from a conspicuous corner of the world.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2022
• But over the past two to three years, consumers have seen a conspicuous shift in the look of the poinsettia.
  — Adrian Higgins, kansascity, 14 Dec. 2017
• So far, the fight over fur has been far more conspicuous.
  — J. David Goodman, New York Times, 14 July 2019
• Leafy greens are a conspicuous absence from most of the book’s recipes.
  — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Apr. 2018
• Of course, the most conspicuous visual changes are right in the cockpit.
  — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 26 Jan. 2023
• But conspicuous in their absence are the bulk of the leaders of the world’s major economies.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2023
• But as the death count in city jails rose to 14 this year, the board’s inaction was conspicuous.
  — New York Times, 8 Nov. 2021
• Many of the old portraits have been taken down or moved to a less conspicuous place.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2021
• Bertha was a hundred and four years old, but the decline in her care was conspicuous.
  — Yasmin Rafiei, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2022
• What about the jagged cut near his left thumb, which had been conspicuous when police met him?
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2021
• The more conspicuous of them was a tower of muscle with a blond flattop and shades.
  — New York Times, 16 Dec. 2020
• Look for a straight black bill and black legs with conspicuous yellow feet.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 11 July 2018
• Miller has long been the most conspicuous obstacle to a deal.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 19 Jan. 2018
• But the least conspicuous piece of luggage — a crate for a cat — was part of an elaborate, lethal plot.
  — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
• Zuckerberg’s colossal drop this year was conspicuous in a list that hasn’t changed all that much over the past year.
  — Don Reisinger, Fortune, 19 June 2019
• The great irony of roadkill is this: Its most conspicuous victims tend to be those least in need of saving.
  — Ben Goldfarb, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2023
• Those who knew them, and those who didn’t, grabbed their phones to broadcast conspicuous displays of grief.
  — Bob Morris, Town & Country, 6 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 2 May 2024