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
• Out on the ice, D.’s oblivious to how the tide is turning.
  — Ed Park, The Cut, 6 Mar. 2018
• 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
• These dancers are oblivious to the rest of the world, their eyes locked on each other.
  — Meryl Gordon, Town & Country, 7 Nov. 2019
• As the crew heads back to the boat, Paris plays oblivious when asked if Ben touched her ass.
  — Emma Soren, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2024
• Dug and his pals are oblivious to the future and dimly aware of the past.
  — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
• Maksym and Ivan were not oblivious to the danger in Bakhmut.
  — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
• Jake was oblivious to the heat, and cranked in fish after fish.
  — Rick Bragg, Southern Living, 11 July 2017
• Again, the parents seemed oblivious to the noise and did nothing to stop them.
  — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 3 Oct. 2024
• Once more, most of the crowd was oblivious to his presence.
  — Sopan Deb, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2017
• And yet the story rolls on, oblivious and hare-brained.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2018
• The bears themselves are, of course, oblivious to the contest.
  — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2020
• 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 gesture seemed oblivious to the feelings of those left out.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
• The kids in Forry’s class were largely oblivious of the new rule.
  — Oliver Whang, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
• The chickens on the light side of the house continued to run about, oblivious.
  — Alana Semuels, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2016
• There was the bartender, hired for the night to be oblivious to the on-premise activities, and the DJ.
  — Faylita Hicks, Longreads, 2 Apr. 2020
• Unlike the rest of my sweaty body, my curls seemed oblivious to the balmy weather.
  — Devon Abelman, Allure, 18 June 2018
• The pandemic made that clear to even the most oblivious among us.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 3 June 2021
• The oblivious young lion was then in for quite the surprise.
  — Richie Hertzberg, National Geographic, 30 May 2018
• Lily sits on a chair at the edge of the room, oblivious of everyone, singing to herself.
  — David Bezmozgis, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
• Caitylyn said most of the time 2-year-old Phoebe is happy at home and, at her age, oblivious to the virus.
  — Leslie Postal, orlandosentinel.com, 1 Dec. 2020
• Your lives cry out against a style of life that is oblivious to its own real cost.
  — Vincent J. Miller, The Conversation, 18 Oct. 2019
• The Amish aren't fully oblivious to the election noise.
  — Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 29 Oct. 2020
• Cara thought the wine would make Karen seem more oblivious to what the kids were getting into.
  — Jasmine Gomez, Seventeen, 15 July 2019
• 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
• Altuve isn’t oblivious to his place on the leaderboard.
  — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 4 July 2025
• Shepherd so believably embodies the voice of a child who is unseen by his teachers and his well-meaning but oblivious parents, and who is acknowledged by his peers only long to be tormented by them.
  — Miriam Gershow june 9, Literary Hub, 9 June 2025