Sentence examples for rather conspicuous from inspiring English sources

A hole has been made in the ground, and a post is lying nearby, rather conspicuous.

Both have rather conspicuous insect-pollinated flowers and capsular fruits with small, wind-dispersed seeds.

As leader of Britain's biggest union, was he not a rather conspicuous channel for such information?

And give thanks for your own freedom.Without wishing to sound churlish, the lack of other voices is getting rather conspicuous.

Cheating is hard because consulting a dictionary or an anagram-solving website would be rather conspicuous to the other players.

"Outside of marches, all-black clothing is rather conspicuous, so our dress code should be 'business casual," they wrote.

For better or worse, the recent economic crisis has managed to do what no single designer could: refocus our attention on value rather than conspicuous consumption.

A few miles away was a model of the new scrappiness that has taken root around food, one that relies on collaborative rather than conspicuous consumption.

So this may come as perverse consolation, but slowly, quietly and over the course of decades, the borough has created something -- or, rather, a conspicuous nothing -- that elevates it among the ranks of the country's real, independent big cities.

This passage explains the background to the Nativity: : Rather than conspicuous literary merit, the chief scholarly value of the Ormulum derives from Orm's idiosyncratic orthographical system (Treharne 2000, p. 273).

The absence of the imagines under Sulla had in fact always been conspicuous, rather than a tactic that led to the erasure of their deeds or memory.