Sentence examples for at conspicuous from inspiring English sources

Sales of some luxury goods have remained strong, he said, because people seem to be having "one last fling" at conspicuous consumption.

We compared acoustic activity of migratory tree bats at conspicuous tall structures (telecommunication towers) to activity at two types of control sites (woodlot edges: consistently attractive to bats; open fields: consistently unattractive) before and during migration.

We post company core values at conspicuous locations around the office.

In return, they sign on to his hegemony - often at conspicuous cost to their citizens' welfare?

Nests are generally built at conspicuous locations, the cholla being favored.

This component was the most widely implemented; posters and videos were displayed at conspicuous places at all the four sites.

Only when it counts sexually are men profligate and women helpful.That result was confirmed by the second experiment which, instead of looking at the amount of spending and volunteering, looked at how conspicuous it was.

We squirm at his conspicuous religiosity, his constant references to God, which sound so, well, Christian to less observant Jews.

As the guests made their way to their tables, a few cast glances at a conspicuous sign — a literal sign — of what had happened.

To the naked eye it looked like a star of the first magnitude seen through a haze; the tail was visible, but not at all conspicuous.

Likewise, on the European side there has been rather too much relief at the conspicuous shambles that the UK government has made of Brexit.