Sentence examples for but obscure from inspiring English sources

His appearance makes a pointed but obscure reference to sex.

This industrywide but obscure practice is called the dealer markup.

Even back then, for many the Pacific front seemed distant and imponderable, vitally important but obscure.

Mando is a lot more energetic than me, whereas J is fast-moving but obscure.

One possibility is that it is just an intriguing but obscure wrinkle.

The Hawaii installation is designed to succeed at a crucial but obscure function: frequency regulation.

We bought a smoked eel warm from the oven, and a handsome but obscure Müritzsee fish.

Before "Bel Canto," she had been admired but obscure, a veteran of academic postings and the grant wars.

In recent days another large but obscure corner of the financial world has come under acute stress.

Harder was a successful but obscure lawyer who had cultivated a modest specialty in the entertainment industry.

The fried rabbit, though, has heavy breading that all but obscures the gamy flesh it encases.