Sentence examples for obscure marks from inspiring English sources

I slightly yearned for a bit more on the outriders, too: that lovely cavalcade of defunct and obscure marks that are glimpsed in the text and add salt to his fine index: the asterism, the dinkus and the fleuron; the austere pilcrow and the honourable diple; the breve and the manicule (shown to such excellent advantage in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa); or the caret that helps you see in the dark.

Thorax greenish blue, anterior thoracic spiracles white, scutum with obscure marks behind the transverse suture, two narrow longitudinal stripes present anteriorly.

Above 8,000 feet we reached an obscure ridge marked as "The Reef" on our map.

The state department did not comply with White House pressure to designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps IRGCC) as a terrorist organisation, but the Treasury did make that designation – under a relatively obscure clause – marking the first time a major part of a country's armed forces has been described as terrorist.

Make sure that the tape doesn't obscure the marking part of the pen or pencil.

And there were the judges, from many of the same nations, wound up tightly in their own obscure way, assigning marks that determined medals.

Although Mr. Ramirez had gotten additional tattoos on his neck since the incident, apparently in an effort to obscure his identifying marks, his parole officer recognized him from the composite sketch and alerted the police.

Anyone who had last year's Anywhere I Lay My Head, Scarlett Johansson's elegantly sombre and surprisingly engaging album of obscure Tom Waits covers, marked down as a Hollywood dilettante's vanity project, is way off target.

The jingoism marks an obscure holiday celebrating national symbols.

Today marks an obscure but important milestone: the 20th anniversary of the Rodney King beating.

The shrubs nearly obscure a small blue sign, marking it as public access.