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.
• Top Republicans have been conspicuous in failing to speak out in their colleague's defense.
  — Star Tribune, 9 Apr. 2021
• Fleming’s absence from the two-deep, while understandable, was conspicuous.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 16 Apr. 2021
• The most conspicuous result was the conviction of Nathaniel Gordon, a ship captain who had been illegally trading in slaves for more than a decade.
  — James Oakes, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2021
• Its directorial style is still deliberate and a bit conspicuous.
  — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 27 Apr. 2021
• However, conspicuous absences in major precursors, as well as the Best Director lineup, keep both out of our top tier.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2021
• The conspicuous absence of Kushner has also been a factor behind Trump Jr.'s rise.
  — Gabby Orr, CNN, 20 Apr. 2021
• Then there are the big companies racing out PR statements of condemnation, though what’s often most conspicuous is their vagueness.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 Apr. 2021
• They would also be required to wear conspicuous police uniforms and tactical gear that distinguishes themselves as law enforcement.
  — Tim Gruver, Washington Examiner, 28 Apr. 2021
• There is one conspicuous exception—the administration’s handling of refugees.
  — William A. Galston, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2021
• 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 dozens of sites is a whole lot fewer than hundreds of sites and the statement is conspicuous for its lack of one thing: a deadline by which the work will be done.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 25 Sep. 2024
• The guiding idea, as Houser saw it, would be to weaponize ICE against families in order to inflict maximum pain in the most conspicuous way.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024