How to Use obscure in a Sentence

obscure

1 of 2 adjective

• The origins of the language are obscure.
• The movie is full of obscure references that only pop culture enthusiasts will understand.
• Along the way the sudden sharp turns obscure many of the ride’s lighter drops.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
• The shareholder suit hinges on an obscure part of the law.
  — Cynthia Koons, Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2017
• Why not start a record label to share obscure music from across the globe?
  — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• The bodycam footage of the foot-chase is too obscure to make out these actions.
  — Emily Wilder, The Arizona Republic, 26 Nov. 2020
• Many of those moments and places are mundane and obscure.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Apr. 2022
• Perhaps the most obscure song on this list, this is a fantastic song to clean the garage to.
  — Ryan D'agostino, Popular Mechanics, 20 Nov. 2018
• Pal gave voice to ideas that the architects of the tribunal preferred to obscure.
  — Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2023
• But don’t let the cyclical noise obscure the long-term trend.
  — Jackson Fordyce, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2023
• And then there are the barriers posed by any number of obscure trade rules.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 9 July 2020
• It was even rumored that the then-obscure actor didn't know how to drive a stick.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 5 Oct. 2021
• When something is this complex and obscure, the best approach is to watch and wait.
  — Drew Pendergrass, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2020
• These bets range from the mundane, like which team will score first, to the highly obscure.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 14 Feb. 2022
• The engineers know every bolt and obscure whine from the engine room.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 31 May 2016
• Rock has become a very obscure kind of label to call something.
  — Pino Gagliardi, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Nov. 2023
• Death comes no less for the famous than for the obscure, for the refined no less than for the crude, for rich and poor alike.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2019
• But as its more obscure provisions come to light, the line of attack may change.
  — Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2021
• The thing about obscure and weird horror is that there’s no practical end to it.
  — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2017
• Mediums like water and glass obscure the passthrough of light over a long enough distance.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 8 Nov. 2022
• There was more obscurity in the old days, more obscure words.
  — Liz Maynes-Aminzade, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2023
• Sanchez has a habit of tying or beating records set by obscure players.
  — Jeremy Fuchs, SI.com, 25 June 2017
• The other half of the mystery, meanwhile, is as obscure as ever.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
• The once-obscure legal theory has its fair share of critics and flaws.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 9 Mar. 2022
• Oscar Moon isn’t named for some obscure soul singer though.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 10 May 2021
• The metaverse isn’t just for small or obscure companies.
  — Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 21 Feb. 2022
• Sometimes stories about the economy and trade can be too obscure or dull.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 26 May 2018
• Some of the real bands are obscure enough that readers might assume Stone made them.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 19 Feb. 2023
• Sometimes the most obscure and hardest-to-find places produce the best results.
  — David Gaz, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
• Sure, a rule as obscure as hell … but equally splendid.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2021

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obscure

2 of 2 verb

• They accused the company of trying to obscure the fact that the product poses a health risk.
• The true history has been obscured by legends about what happened.
• The figure could be seen dragging a foot across the way to obscure the tracks of the cart.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 23 Sep. 2021
• The weather can change and clouds can obscure your sky view.
  — Michael Stillwell, Popular Mechanics, 28 Mar. 2017
• Black men also shot out the street lights to obscure the view of white snipers.
  — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 24 June 2021
• Coats came sleeveless or had long arms that obscured the hands.
  — Thomas Adamson, The Seattle Times, 22 June 2017
• Bright moonlight could dim the view, and clouds could obscure it.
  — Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Oct. 2021
• The sun is often obscured and overshadowed by the trunk of a tree.
  — Pelican Bomb, NOLA.com, 12 Dec. 2017
• Trees have filled in behind and around the pavilion and obscure the view to the mountains.
  — oregonlive, 9 Nov. 2020
• All of this means that sometimes a hive or nest is obscured instead of out in the open.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 10 Oct. 2018
• Fill the case with poly pellets to obscure the treasures.
  — Lauren Piro, Good Housekeeping, 31 Oct. 2022
• There is good all around us, even in times when bad tries to swirl in and obscure our view.
  — Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com, 22 Dec. 2021
• In the video, the car is slathered in mud and obscured by the cloudy green water, its trunk popped open.
  — Steve Annear, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2018
• That means there will be almost no glare from moonlight to obscure your view of the stars.
  — National Geographic, 20 Oct. 2017
• The suspect’s eyes are drawn as black and beady, and his left ear is obscured.
  — Jonathan Sperling, NBC News, 9 Feb. 2018
• None of this is to obscure from its very real pleasures.
  — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 18 June 2018
• Staffers found her in a bedroom that had been obscured by rubble.
  — Maria Carter, Country Living, 12 Oct. 2017
• At some point the art became obscured by layers of white paint and a drop ceiling.
  — Linda Girardi, Aurora Beacon-News, 18 Apr. 2018
• Towels were hung from a beam overhead that would obscure the view from the field into the area.
  — Dallas News, 13 Jan. 2020
• But don’t let that obscure the good news, which was about more than one month.
  — Alan S. Blinder, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2022
• Lazarus appears to be using bridges in an attempt to obscure source of funds.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 8 Sep. 2022
• Mounds of whitewater obscured the beach a half-mile in.
  — Jeff Johnson, Outside Online, 11 July 2018
• Some faces were obscured by the turbans Sikhs wear as a symbol of their faith.
  — Vic Ryckaert, Indianapolis Star, 2 July 2018
• So many truths that have been obscured by the constant noise in our heads begin to surface.
  — Guest Columnist/cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 18 Mar. 2018
• The garage fits just one car, and the ocean view is partially obscured by other homes.
  — Noah Buhayar, Bloomberg.com, 27 Feb. 2018
• Tell’s late score obscured how close the game really was.
  — Zach Helfand, latimes.com, 2 Sep. 2017
• Pick a spot where the western horizon is not obscured by buildings.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2018
• Beneath the vest, half the message of her T-shirt was obscured.
  — Catherine Lacey, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
• At times those parts obscure the central thread of the narrative.
  — Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2021
• Not on a day when blowing snow at times obscured the course from the few thousand fans jammed around the finish.
  — Will Graves, Houston Chronicle, 11 Feb. 2018

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