Sentence examples for obscure name from inspiring English sources

Hollenstein is an interesting character, a former electrician and a pretty obscure name in the peloton.

The victory catapulted Haley from a relatively obscure name in politics to national prominence.

Many years ago the contest for the most obscure name ever was ignominiously won by what is now Coventry University.

Zwirner's first show was of sculptures by the Austrian Franz West, who at the time was an obscure name in the United States.

Even at the modest level of Conference football, Jamie Vardy was an obscure name when he joined Fleetwood Town at the start of the 2011-12 season.

Saddled with an obscure name – hardly anyone could point to it on a map – Lanchester Polytechnic was an unprepossessing set of buildings sited in one of the least lovely of British cities.

Not obscure names, but future Hall of Fame names, Pro Bowl names, established names.

Blythswood, Henry Robb, Yarrow, Scott Lithgow, Vosper's: obscure names today, but generations of workers once knew them.

You might say that it has just as much right as the many more obscure names showing at Lincoln Center.

At times, this felt like a preseason game, full of makeshift lineups and (in the Nets' case) obscure names.

One newspaper reported last week that the list would be issued later this year and would curb the use of obscure names.