Sentence examples for conspicuous form from inspiring English sources

His most conspicuous form of waste, however, is gambling.

The center's most conspicuous form is a large rotunda, made of intersecting, twisted, tapering oblongs, which rises 44 feet above ground level.

It's a glorious, visceral spectacle, but it's also a poignant reminder of a national passion for what must be the most conspicuous form of consumption.

Death might not be in the offing, but in a town where the most conspicuous form of employment tends to be on Wall Street or in law firms, the fear was not limited to people at Bear Stearns.

As the introduction to the accompanying booklet to the documentary series states: "They promise us physical as well as social mobility and furnish us with the most conspicuous form of personal adornment after the clothes we stand up in".

A steady procession of pedestrians approached the car, either to pay tribute to my racy good taste or to snigger openly about whatever physical or emotional inadequacies would compel a middle-aged man -- namely me -- to choose such a conspicuous form of transport.

Other conspicuous forms of mobility in Europe are the daily commuting of city workers and the increasing movements of tourists.

One of the most common and conspicuous forms is the 100-mm (4-inch) black-and-red Narceus americanus of southeastern U.S. forests.

(Young longhairs are almost unanimous in their conviction that they were cleared off the Strip to make room for more serious, less conspicuous forms of vice than lingering after curfew).

Further, black and Hispanic Americans are more likely, after controlling for permanent income, to spend a greater share of their wealth on conspicuous forms of consumption such as automobiles, clothes, and jewellery.

Closer examination of the second branch of the phylogenetic tree identified a conspicuous group formed by 14 closely related strains isolated from patients in the San Francisco Bay area, California, USA, during 2005 2008.