Sentence examples for conspicuous things from inspiring English sources

THE guns are the most conspicuous things, more even than the bullet holes that scar the buildings like so much architectural acne.

Two tickets and $132 later (I saved money with a cheap but quite wonderful Chinese meal in Flushing later on), I arrived at Citi Field, where the most conspicuous things were the number of Chase Utley jerseys (perhaps a quarter of the park was rooting for the Phillies) and the rows of empty seats across from me in left field.

The royalty trap Reprints Related items The campaign: Who's the real left-winger?May 10th 2007But one of the most conspicuous things about America these days is that it does not take a visit from the British monarch to give the White House "an air of royalty".

If a scene shows many conspicuous things such as objects, hands, and faces, the algorithm tends to extract more keyframes in that scene than in others, which may make a subject regard them as false positives.

But there is one conspicuous thing missing so far: a gold medal.

Located on a plateau with a thick forest cover surrounding it, the most conspicuous thing about Ranchi is its enjoyable weather.

Less-well-to-do individuals, he reckoned, tried to emulate the well-off and signal their worth through things like "conspicuous consumption" or "conspicuous leisure".In Veblen's day, leisure was a badge of honour.

The only thing conspicuous by its absence is Bill Ward's drumming.

They were things of conspicuous expense that only the wealthy could afford.

The absence of these things is conspicuous, and sometimes frustrating, but the decision to omit them was nonetheless the right one.

The thing is, conspicuous consumption was on its way out anyway; it had stopped being cool, unless you were a WAG or the wife of some oligarch and your definition of cool involved a Day-Glo orange tan and a lot of python skin.