How to Use oblivious in a Sentence

oblivious

adjective

• Alas, his wry metaphor was lost on the oblivious heckler in the front-row.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2023
• Maksym and Ivan were not oblivious to the danger in Bakhmut.
  — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
• 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 painting was atrocious, and my oblivious mother beamed and grinned and took a bow.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 2 Jan. 2023
• Free bird redneck Mikey Day is tased and shot as the young couple breaks up, oblivious.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 12 Mar. 2023
• The regime seemed oblivious to the irony that its own prisons were every bit as cruel.
  — Kian Tajbakhsh, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2022
• 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
• My main annoyance is that the parents choose to be so oblivious.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2023
• 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
• Until that point Lenox, who is now 33, had remained all but oblivious to the hip-hop and indie pop his peers grew up on.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2022
• Ahead of us, a man with a scooter walked with a man pushing a wheelchair, oblivious to our approach.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• But the protagonist of the film is his date Margot, a last-minute addition to the meal who’s oblivious to the norms of a restaurant like this.
  — Serena Dai, Bon Appétit, 10 Nov. 2022
• The two-and-a-half-foot-tall fake tree whose implicit tragedy my father seemed oblivious to was on display atop a TV tray.
  — Lindsay Lee Wallace, SELF, 20 Dec. 2022
• Monique has a knack for landing the comedy in the moments when Cherise is naïvely oblivious.
  — Vulture, 20 July 2023
• Rhett Steele lopes through the dense Indiana forest, oblivious of the ironweed and paw-paws and briars that grab at his legs.
  — Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2022
• The trailers hid the villain in plain sight while also trying to conceal the reveal, and MCU fans who were oblivious to the leaks were not prepared for the shock.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 24 May 2022
• The oblivious boyfriend follows suit, dousing it with soy sauce as the family looks on in horror.
  — Mackenzie Chung Fegan, Bon Appétit, 17 Oct. 2023
• But the two women seemed oblivious to the gunshot, as well as to the explosions sounding nearby.
  — New York Times, 24 May 2022
• Tourists enjoying the sunny day were mostly oblivious about the change or seemed to welcome it.
  — The Brooklyn Bridge, Curbed, 3 Jan. 2024
• The Wave aren’t oblivious to the drought, despite the franchise being in its infancy and the youthfulness of their players.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2023
• What might seem like virtue can also read as oblivious self-regard.
  — Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
• At first Gemma is oblivious to the dangers of her niece’s new companion.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Jan. 2023
• This fall, oblivious to the political churn, the tide continued to rise and fall over the inlet’s stony beaches.
  — Lois Parshley, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2022
• Passersby were oblivious to Tutberidze and her shock of platinum curls.
  — Louise Radnofsky, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2022
• The ending is a page turner as Wels describes Garfield’s last days alive, oblivious to Guiteau skulking in the shadows.
  — Joy Lanzendorfer, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
• Baboons wrestled and chased vervet monkeys, oblivious to the small band of humans in their midst who were enraptured by the splendor of it all.
  — Tayari Jones, Travel + Leisure, 26 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024