Sentence examples for obscure reference from inspiring English sources

His appearance makes a pointed but obscure reference to sex.

If he does, it will not be an obscure reference.

(Obscure reference watch: Canada Lee, who died in 1952, starred in "Cry the Beloved Country").

When choosing a hint, make it an obscure reference that only you will connect with the actual password.

It can't be said that a clue is unsuccessful if it contains 20 words, or an obscure reference to a Dickens character, or golf.

It consists of a crude sculpture of a blue horse, an obscure reference to a popular symbol of political liberation from the 1970s.

Does anyone know to which match he's referring and are there any other obscure references to football in great literature?" "How many different nationalities have been represented in Premiership history?" asks Andy Worden.

But some apparently obscure references misfired.

A citadel of unexplained jargon and obscure references serves nicely to keep the plebs at bay.

He writes in a rather archaic German, riddled with obscure references which require a thorough explanation.

Mr. Warrack also assails the artificiality of Planché's dialogue, replete with "inversions, puns, obscure references".