Sentence examples for were obscure from inspiring English sources

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were obscure

verb

To render obscure; to darken; to make dim; to keep in the dark; to hide; to make less visible, intelligible, legible, glorious, beautiful, or illustrious.

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"Some of these women were obscure because they wanted to be obscure, but some were obscured because they were de-emphasized by the church".

There were obscure images, sly references, misdirections.

Some of the defaulted loans were obscure and fiddly.

Viewership was tiny, in part because the selections were obscure.

Both were obscure figures, seemingly quite unsuited to leadership, strategic vision and policy formation.

But the summary was only two pages long, and the authors' methods of confirmation were obscure.

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Lines of authority were obscured.

The windows were obscured.

The period is obscure.

Why, exactly, is obscure.

The lyrics are obscure.

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