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.
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The movie is at its best when those traces are most conspicuous.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
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In fact, there was a conspicuous lack of them at the piers that day.
—Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Sep. 2021
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The change in tone and the loss of shame and guilt in her last novel are conspicuous.
—Ankita Chakraborty, Longreads, 8 June 2018
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Look for a straight black bill and black legs with conspicuous yellow feet.
—Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 11 July 2018
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Leafy greens are a conspicuous absence from most of the book’s recipes.
—Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Apr. 2018
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What about the jagged cut near his left thumb, which had been conspicuous when police met him?
—Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2021
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Most conspicuous of all are the glinting hobnails in the sole of the boot on the left.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019
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Many of the old portraits have been taken down or moved to a less conspicuous place.
—Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2021
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Bertha was a hundred and four years old, but the decline in her care was conspicuous.
—Yasmin Rafiei, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2022
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The heroine of the piece is a naked mole rat named Sweety, a conspicuous weirdo.
—Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2019
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Miller has long been the most conspicuous obstacle to a deal.
—Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 19 Jan. 2018
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Of course, the most conspicuous visual changes are right in the cockpit.
—Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 26 Jan. 2023
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The more conspicuous of them was a tower of muscle with a blond flattop and shades.
—New York Times, 16 Dec. 2020
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Those who knew them, and those who didn’t, grabbed their phones to broadcast conspicuous displays of grief.
—Bob Morris, Town & Country, 6 Aug. 2019
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Zuckerberg’s colossal drop this year was conspicuous in a list that hasn’t changed all that much over the past year.
—Don Reisinger, Fortune, 19 June 2019
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Yet, on this night, both Glenn and I were able to see it as a conspicuous patch of light.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 17 Sep. 2025
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Tellingly, no conspicuous voice has been raised to accuse him of sour grapes or being a bad sport.
—Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2017
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But conspicuous in their absence are the bulk of the leaders of the world’s major economies.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2023
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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
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With this in mind, the software ensures that the drone does not pick somewhere too conspicuous.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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Wine bottles are conspicuous on the beach or the tennis court, after all.
—Dave McIntyre, chicagotribune.com, 26 Dec. 2017
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But the least conspicuous piece of luggage — a crate for a cat — was part of an elaborate, lethal plot.
—Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
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But as the death count in city jails rose to 14 this year, the board’s inaction was conspicuous.
—New York Times, 8 Nov. 2021
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In the long term, though, the most conspicuous effects of the IoT will be in how the world works.
—The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
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