Sentence examples for be as conspicuous from inspiring English sources

In the absence of ascites, surface nodularity may not be as conspicuous as in Fig. 5.

"At times like this, you don't want to be as conspicuous," one marketing professor said.

Perhaps as many American tech companies would be as conspicuous if all their names started with "Palo Alto".

In Italian churches, confessionals are as conspicuous as video arcades.

Often, the plugs were as conspicuous as a newly sodded lawn.

The few other foreigners on the island were as conspicuous as his little English group must have been.

His long dyed-blond hair was as conspicuous as his Chevy Silverado, which was parked in the Binghams' yard.

Two weeks later, European security experts say the flaws in the continent's defenses are as conspicuous as ever, with no clear plan for fixing them.

Not all flowers are as conspicuous as the Magnolia blossom in the picture above; oaks, ivy, and grasses also produce flowers, but because they are not as showy we often do not notice them.

Inspired by Chandler's throwaway remark about something being as conspicuous as "a kangaroo in a dinner jacket", Lethem sprinkles Metcalf's world with genetically engineered animals: bulldog parking-lot attendants, sheep housekeepers, even ape private eyes.

In this land of tombs, the graves are as conspicuous as posters of Saddam Hussein, Americans and balding war correspondents who hold up their mobile phones and broadcast the sounds of falling bombs to their foreign-desk administrators back home.