Sentence examples for conspicuous as an from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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

The same idea is conspicuous as well in Tarski (1941, ch. II, §6).

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

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

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.

Guarded by four 300-pound bronze eagles, and approached via a 100-foot-wide 100-foot-wide 100-foot-wideagnificent, ausweep and aboft as conspicuous as a memorial gets.

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

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.

Some mine whimsical humor from the weirdness of that juxtaposition — see Paul Auster's meta-novels or Adam Thirlwell's "Lurid & Cute," due out in April — but the technique can easily become as conspicuous as a bald spot.