How to Use arcane in a Sentence

arcane

adjective

• The third study is a little more arcane.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside, 29 Oct. 2025
• Humans do these weird arcane things and never do the same path twice.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 18 Oct. 2021
• There are certain arcane rules about what kinds of bills can and can’t be passed through this process.
  — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 13 Feb. 2021
• The reasons for denying a passport can be arcane, to say the least.
  — Katherine Lagrave, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 July 2018
• If this strikes you as an arcane legal debate of no great moment, think again.
  — Clive Crook, Twin Cities, 10 Feb. 2024
• But what about the odder, more arcane landmarks that once dotted the city?
  — Maia Pandey, Journal Sentinel, 11 Nov. 2024
• The law in question is, like all campaign-finance rules, arcane.
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 1 July 2026
• Their tastes can be fickle, their methods obscure and arcane.
  — Jess Grey, Wired, 27 Nov. 2021
• Even the ins and outs of applying to graduate school are a bit arcane.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 18 Apr. 2022
• To those who have never burned money at a baccarat table, its rules may seem arcane.
  — Ben Guarino, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2016
• At the time, the internet was an arcane world that made everyone an alien.
  — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
• In the arcane world of securities filings, a few small words can turn heads.
  — Charley Grant, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2023
• The cat had blood pouring from its mouth and was surrounded by arcane symbols scrawled on the walls.
  — Emma Seiwell, Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2026
• The cat had blood pouring from its mouth and was surrounded by arcane symbols scrawled on the walls.
  — Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 14 Jan. 2026
• Even then, the bills can be arcane and not easily understood.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 28 June 2017
• Many of these, like being able to swing a sword on either side of your horse, would have been explained in a less arcane game.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 9 Mar. 2022
• Google offered an early, arcane demonstration of the feat last year.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2020
• The start of this football season has brought to life an arcane clause from the league’s new labor deal with its players.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2021
• Much of their focus will turn to the arcane world of managing interest-rate risk.
  — Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2023
• The machine gave you powers but required you to study its arcane secrets—to learn a spell language.
  — James Somers, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• People got some of the most arcane and insane references about cavemen and stuff.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2021
• Purpose trusts have been around for decades as part of the arcane laws governing how estates are managed.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
• That’s fascinating, or me at least, but way too arcane to include in the story.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 31 May 2018
• These ancient grudges may appear arcane, but as the wise man knows, after money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
  — Kevin Baker, New Republic, 15 Feb. 2018
• There’s a galaxy of arcane details in this case — the murder tree in Lake Tahoe!
  — Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 July 2021
• Walsh asked me arcane questions about the White Sox’s middle relief.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2021
• The shop offers arcane goods, such as board games, hobby supplies, toys, Wizkids and more.
  — Charles Infosino, The Enquirer, 10 May 2023
• The latest hurdle involves an arcane dispute over the project’s water source.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2024
• The report offers many curatives, the details of which are too arcane and lengthy to get into here.
  — Wesley J. Smith, National Review, 27 Sep. 2019
• The Senate did not fail because of its arcane rules or because of the abuse of the filibuster.
  — Ira Shapiro, The New Republic, 6 May 2022