Examples of in plain sight in a Sentence
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The Pizza Planet truck popcorn buckets have been turned into steam locomotives, Santa’s sleighs, Star Wars droids and other creative mutations that are hidden in plain sight right under visitors’ noses.
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Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 7 June 2024
Several other sites and apps almost eliminated drug postings years ago after scrutiny by law enforcement, yet drug dealers on Craigslist seemingly remained active, using a colorful assortment of code words to operate in plain sight.
—Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024
Unbeknownst to the majority of listeners, there was a hidden game of one-upsmanship occurring in plain sight between the two of them.
—Hazlitt, 30 May 2024
Lady Gaga's Chromatica team reveals the history and future of her new era
Cut to the stark interlude that shows her on a cold operating table, nodules attached to her head, splayed out for the world to see, like a medical patient wasting away in plain sight.
—EW.com, 26 May 2024
The first big developers to default, like China Evergrande, were problems hiding in plain sight.
—Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 24 May 2024
The intelligence disaster was even more striking considering Hamas carried out much of its preparations in plain sight, including practice assaults on mock-ups of the border fence and Israeli settlements—activities that were openly reported.
—Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Jan. 2024
Unsafe conditions in plain sight An Observer reporter and photographers observed a host of dangerous practices during visits to Charlotte construction sites over the past 15 months.
—Ames Alexander, Charlotte Observer, 14 May 2024
Our investigative journalists use evidence that's hidden in plain sight to present a definitive account of the news.
—Christoph Koettl, New York Times, 10 May 2024
Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 7 June 2024
Several other sites and apps almost eliminated drug postings years ago after scrutiny by law enforcement, yet drug dealers on Craigslist seemingly remained active, using a colorful assortment of code words to operate in plain sight.
—Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024
Unbeknownst to the majority of listeners, there was a hidden game of one-upsmanship occurring in plain sight between the two of them.
—Hazlitt, 30 May 2024
Lady Gaga's Chromatica team reveals the history and future of her new era
Cut to the stark interlude that shows her on a cold operating table, nodules attached to her head, splayed out for the world to see, like a medical patient wasting away in plain sight.
—EW.com, 26 May 2024
The first big developers to default, like China Evergrande, were problems hiding in plain sight.
—Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 24 May 2024
The intelligence disaster was even more striking considering Hamas carried out much of its preparations in plain sight, including practice assaults on mock-ups of the border fence and Israeli settlements—activities that were openly reported.
—Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Jan. 2024
Unsafe conditions in plain sight An Observer reporter and photographers observed a host of dangerous practices during visits to Charlotte construction sites over the past 15 months.
—Ames Alexander, Charlotte Observer, 14 May 2024
Our investigative journalists use evidence that's hidden in plain sight to present a definitive account of the news.
—Christoph Koettl, New York Times, 10 May 2024
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