Sentence examples for conspicuous as a from inspiring English sources

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

An internal protective band, the endodermis, becomes conspicuous as a single sheath of cells surrounding the procambium.

On Fifth Avenue she ducked into a Sephora cosmetics store, where for some reason she decided she would be least conspicuous as a tall, caramel-complexioned Russian.

Portswood Road, a quiet suburban high street in the suburbs of Southampton, is not immediately conspicuous as a hive of revolutionary agitation.

The life event will appear in the midst of your Timeline stream across two columns, as conspicuous as a newspaper headline.

The house was a blemish on an otherwise impeccable block, with a pink stucco facade and a missing stoop as conspicuous as a knocked-out incisor.

The reality of tennis as a sport predominately owned, played and watched by white people has rarely been as conspicuous as an episode 14 years ago featuring one of its greatest ever players at one of its most prestigious venues.

Throughout, he was conspicuous as an opponent of the expansion of slavery and was at heart an abolitionist, though he never became one in the political sense of the word.

The planet Venus blazes in the SSW at nightfall, stands at its greatest angular distance from the Sun (47°) on the 14th and remains conspicuous as an evening star until it plunges into our evening twilight in late March.

It is made conspicuous as an ornament by its coloration, reflectance [ 14], shape [ 15], and size [ 16].

Gucci jeans, pink open-neck shirts and patent leather shoes made bankers as conspicuous as flamingos in a crowd of protesting wildebeest.