Sentence examples for conspicuous group from inspiring English sources

LAST September a conspicuous group of visitors mingled with tourists in Zanzibar.

Insofar as it portrays a conspicuous group of people who act with conscious moral purpose, it bears no resemblance to the phenomenon Smith describes.

They shopped in a conspicuous group of three because the Indian police often prosecuted terrorists on circumstantial evidence, trying to damn them with statements like, "Why was he shopping alone with a shawl pulled over his face?" Thus, the revolutionaries reasoned, if you had three people carrying out a task meant for one, you defeated the police's logic with your illogic.

To make matters worse, our conspicuous group of buzzing homeless had caught the attention of other tramps in the vicinity, who decided to join us, and whether out of envy of their peers (or perhaps improbably, actual disapproval at our state in a shamefully early hour of the morning) they didn't seem too impressed with any of us.

Besides there were five groups of additional internal muscle bundles (Fig.  27), with oblique longitudinal bundles being the most conspicuous group (II on the Figure).

Cajal Retzius cells constitute a morphologically conspicuous group of neurons in the MZ of the early developing cortex (Edmunds and Parnavelas 1982; Frotscher 1997; Marín-Padilla 1998).

For social sharks, this involves pushing for the 'safety in numbers' adage, by forming conspicuous groups with other well-connected individuals.

With luminous stars of this type there need not be very many to make up a highly luminous and conspicuous grouping.

There is a conspicuous grouping of stars, sometimes called the Cassiopeia-Taurus Group, that has a centroid at approximately 600 light-years distance.

Well-connected individuals formed conspicuous groups, while less social individuals tended to camouflage alone, matching their skin colour with the colour of the gravel substrate in the bottom of the tank," Dr Jacoby added.

In a popular sense, "insect" usually refers to familiar pests or disease carriers, such as bedbugs, houseflies, clothes moths, Japanese beetles, aphids, mosquitoes, fleas, horseflies, and hornets, or to conspicuous groups, such as butterflies, moths, and beetles.