How to Use oblivious in a Sentence

oblivious

adjective

• Chick is the live wire: the needy and oblivious one, the drama queen.
  — Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 23 June 2021
• Alas, his wry metaphor was lost on the oblivious heckler in the front-row.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2023
• Right, and the two of them are oblivious to Kendall’s distress.
  — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 29 Nov. 2021
• As the crew heads back to the boat, Paris plays oblivious when asked if Ben touched her ass.
  — Emma Soren, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2024
• Maksym and Ivan were not oblivious to the danger in Bakhmut.
  — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
• Again, the parents seemed oblivious to the noise and did nothing to stop them.
  — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 3 Oct. 2024
• Sandy is beaming, oblivious to both his man-purse and to the fine print on the package.
  — Shanti L. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2022
• The kids in Forry’s class were largely oblivious of the new rule.
  — Oliver Whang, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
• The pandemic made that clear to even the most oblivious among us.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 3 June 2021
• The painting was atrocious, and my oblivious mother beamed and grinned and took a bow.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 2 Jan. 2023
• But Beethoven was oblivious to the applause and his music.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 6 May 2024
• Within a month the two were engaged, oblivious to the 25 years between them.
  — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2021
• Most of the crowd, standing further away, remained oblivious to the chaos.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2021
• It’s the colleague with her head down, oblivious to the commotion around them.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes, 28 June 2021
• Free bird redneck Mikey Day is tased and shot as the young couple breaks up, oblivious.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 12 Mar. 2023
• Craig was oblivious to the wound, laughing about being unaware the whole time.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 24 Jan. 2022
• The regime seemed oblivious to the irony that its own prisons were every bit as cruel.
  — Kian Tajbakhsh, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2022
• The clip shows the oblivious fluffy dog sniffing around for treats throughout a large part of the weather segment.
  — Naledi Ushe, PEOPLE.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• Right there, big as a horse, stood a tawny cow nilgai, broadside and oblivious at just 60 paces.
  — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 4 Apr. 2023
• Often, as at this 1981 gathering, the guests were in their own world and oblivious to the camera.
  — Natalia Jiménez-Stuard, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2023
• The bride and groom were just prancing around posing for photos, oblivious to it all.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2024
• Stoops, while not oblivious to outside noise, pays it no heed.
  — Ryan Black, The Courier-Journal, 3 Nov. 2022
• Bailey seemed oblivious to the fact that some people wanted him on it.
  — al, 9 Mar. 2022
• My main annoyance is that the parents choose to be so oblivious.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2023
• Some car drivers are oblivious to the very notion that tall trucks can serve as an early bird.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
• The current picks up, and the fish plunge forward, oblivious of human rafters who float past them on inner tubes.
  — Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2021
• At one point, a 10-foot-tall puppet, named Little Amal, walked through the room, to which Mr. Huq appeared oblivious.
  — New York Times, 11 Nov. 2021
• Of course, griping about the inanity of TikTok can make a person feel dusty and oblivious.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
• The 14-year-old sat wrapped in a comforter on a mattress on the floor, seemingly oblivious to my presence.
  — Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic, 3 May 2022
• He’s curled up on a blue velvet chair, sleeping in a sunbeam, oblivious to the wild creatures that share these streets with us.
  — Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024