Sentence examples for obscure town from inspiring English sources

The hitherto obscure town of Ghazna became a splendid city, as did the second capital at Bust (Lashkar Gāh).

(In 2005, the military dictatorship relocated the administrative capital to a compound near Pyinmana, a hitherto obscure town two hundred miles north of Rangoon.

He looked more like a member of some obscure town council than one of the most controversial politicians of his day.

The title destination in Horton Foote's "Trip to Bountiful," which has been revived at the Stephen Sondheim Theater, is said to be a small, obscure town in Texas.

The news that a movement few had heard of is threatening an obscure town in Syria was never going to set the world on fire.

It begins with his birth in 1769 in the obscure town of Ajaccio in Corsica, a year after Louis XV had bought the island from the Genoese authorities.

However, if travelers are attending an event, such as a wedding, even people in the most obscure towns can usually find a match.

Tucked in a valley between pine-covered mountains, this once-obscure town is now dotted with small restaurants and family-run hotels.

The siege of a once-obscure town didn't attract much attention until the United States launched its first air strikes, in late September, transforming what had been a footnote in the war into a test of American might against the jihadist onslaught.

As we sailed south to ever-more-obscure towns and ever-smaller islands, we settled into a rhythm.

Unfortunately he took dangerously ill of a heart attack in an obscure Spanish town.