Sentence examples for conspicuous as though from inspiring English sources

When I try out a new word, I feel conspicuous, as though I'm test-driving a car I can't afford.

He solicited nationally famous women to proclaim their support of the new standards; TIME's report on the WPB quoted author Adela Rogers St. Johns predicting, "The overdressed woman will be as unpatriotically conspicuous as though she wore a Japanese kimono".

Though the Milanese are out shopping in droves, restaurants and hotels are less crowded, and the absence of American retailers has been conspicuous as well as criticized.

Mr. Mancini is almost as conspicuous as Mr. Leach, though he writes for an alternative weekly that suits his mohawk, tattoos, chin beard and the skull-print T-shirts he wears (under nattily tailored suits, when the location demands it).

In the absence of ascites, surface nodularity may not be as conspicuous as in Fig. 5.

The elevated mortality curves for Poulsenia armataand Psychotria horizontalis are conspicuous as in Fig. 1.

At higher dose there was however some effect, though not as conspicuous as IONP. Figure 4 Comparison of cellular viability in IONP treated cells using Propidium Iodide (PI) uptake.

In Italian churches, confessionals are as conspicuous as video arcades.

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

As conspicuous as his books have been, he himself has always remained almost unreachable.

How could something as conspicuous as three dwarfs go unnoticed in that tiny glass box?