Sentence examples for bit conspicuous from inspiring English sources

But then, that always seemed a bit conspicuous, didn't it?

She felt a bit conspicuous in her Chinese hairdo -- they were doing French chinoiserie -- perhaps why she had thought of Confucius.

Marquee's bookings have always been a bit conspicuous.

Ms. Ruppel Shell was agreeing with a comment that I'd made, which is that it's become acceptable, even fashionable, in the wake of the economic crisis, to go for a bit of conspicuous economizing, rather than conspicuous consumption.

Maybe, he said, there's also a bit of "conspicuous consumption".

On weekdays, over at Caviarteria (682-5355), forlorn-looking servers flip through the Post with little to do, perhaps because the centrally located bar is a bit too conspicuous a spot for caviar consumption.

Once again we welcome into the world a bit of conspicuous consumption so ham-handed that you actually get compassionate flop sweat for these people.

Kleeb herself might be the most conspicuous bit of flair affixed to the state party in years.

Against that backdrop, the new station — known officially as the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center, or ARTIC — rises as a curious, conspicuous bit of architectural symbolism.

The mycelium (filaments composing the body of the fungus) is conspicuous around bits of decaying organic matter.

The long, conspicuous 'drill-bit' structures (figure 1 d f) are very similar to the characteristic, greatly elongate acrosomes of Branchiobdella (figure 1 k m; [ 20, 22]), which in extreme cases can reach 90 µm in length, forming the longest acrosomes in nature [ 18].