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Sentences with obscure

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  • The origin of the custom is obscure.
  • The contracts are written in obscure language.
  • Passion for obscure tunes is music to the ears of PBS' Jenny O'Keefe and Matt Frederick.
  • White Converse sneakers and skinny jeans rule the day at this rabbit hole of a bar down one of the CBD's more obscure laneways.
  • Trees obscured his vision; he couldn't see much of the Square's southern half. [VERB noun]
  • ...the jargon that frequently obscures educational writing. [VERB noun]
  • An obscure US crime drama, The Wire, goes beyond TV to become a must-watch DVD experience, writes Greg Hassall.
  • Huon Hooke sets out to clarify some of the obscure terminology and dizzying factoids that cloud the world of wine.
  • The obscure night
  • An obscure figure or sound
  • Obscure applies to that which is perceived with difficulty either because it is concealed or veiled or because of obtuseness in the perceiver [their reasons remain obscure]; vague implies such a lack of precision or exactness as to be indistinct or unclear [a vague idea]; enigmatic, cryptic are used of that which baffles or perplexes, the latter word implying deliberate intention to puzzle [enigmatic behavior, a cryptic warning]; ambiguous applies to that which puzzles because it allows of more than one interpretation [an ambiguous title]; equivocal is used of something ambiguous that is deliberately used to mislead or confuse [an equivocal answer]
  • An obscure explanation
  • An obscure village
  • An obscure scientist
  • A success that obscured earlier failures
  • Testimony that obscures the issue
  • An obscure sentence in the contract.
  • obscure motivations.
  • The obscure beginnings of a great movement.
  • An obscure French artist.
  • An obscure little town.
  • An obscure back room.
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