Sentence examples for be obtrusive from inspiring English sources
adjective
Sticking out; protruding.
- The facade of the building was ornamented with obtrusive sculpted designs.
This app includes pop-up ads between every round, and boy, can they be obtrusive.
He couldn't do anything that might be obtrusive to other G.M.'s or organizations.
I found the heavy doses of voice-over in the rather clunky movie to be obtrusive and irritating.
It's difficult to capture the liveliness of a kamishibai performance with photos (and I didn't want to be obtrusive and shoot a video).
Since the position of the driver is fixed, cars can be fitted with sensing equipment that would be obtrusive in other contexts.
"Of course, we placed the table a pinch off to the side, so it wouldn't be obtrusive," Ms. Allen said in a honey-sweet voice suggestive of an overconsumption of bridal magazines.
When form is obtrusive, it is lesser.
Nothing in the new building is obtrusive, nothing is cheap.
It is a ballet that is obtrusive about its structure.
The result was visually appealing without being obtrusive.
Designers often dislike them too, not for suspected Satanism but because they're obtrusive.
