How to Use arcane in a Sentence

arcane

adjective

• The reasons for denying a passport can be arcane, to say the least.
  — Katherine Lagrave, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 July 2018
• There are certain arcane rules about what kinds of bills can and can’t be passed through this process.
  — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 13 Feb. 2021
• Humans do these weird arcane things and never do the same path twice.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 18 Oct. 2021
• The painting, rechristened ‘Love is in the Bin’, could now be worth double in the arcane ways of working of the art world.
  — Lawrence Wintermeyer, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
• The Senate did not fail because of its arcane rules or because of the abuse of the filibuster.
  — Ira Shapiro, The New Republic, 6 May 2022
• There’s a galaxy of arcane details in this case — the murder tree in Lake Tahoe!
  — Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 July 2021
• Even the ins and outs of applying to graduate school are a bit arcane.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 18 Apr. 2022
• Win, lose or spin The caucus process has always been arcane.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 4 Feb. 2020
• Yesterday, a group of men hit the streets of Tokyo in high heels to protest the arcane laws and support the #KuToo movement.
  — Tatum Dooley, Teen Vogue, 11 June 2019
• Other links have more arcane monikers—consider the Cuban, the Figaro, or the Wheat.
  — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 19 Feb. 2021
• The start of this football season has brought to life an arcane clause from the league’s new labor deal with its players.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2021
• Many of these, like being able to swing a sword on either side of your horse, would have been explained in a less arcane game.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 9 Mar. 2022
• Consider that a deadline for a deal, thanks to some arcane NBA trade rules.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 23 July 2024
• In the arcane world of securities filings, a few small words can turn heads.
  — Charley Grant, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2023
• But Josiah was never one to be daunted by the task of learning the arcane details of a new machine.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
• If this strikes you as an arcane legal debate of no great moment, think again.
  — Clive Crook, Twin Cities, 10 Feb. 2024
• The machine gave you powers but required you to study its arcane secrets—to learn a spell language.
  — James Somers, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• Walsh asked me arcane questions about the White Sox’s middle relief.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2021
• These were pre-internet times, but now any newbie kid could learn all the arcane corners of the Fabs’ career.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2023
• Much of their focus will turn to the arcane world of managing interest-rate risk.
  — Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2023
• The shop offers arcane goods, such as board games, hobby supplies, toys, Wizkids and more.
  — Charles Infosino, The Enquirer, 10 May 2023
• But the Nobels are burdened by arcane rules and biases that, for me, have removed some of the luster.
  — National Geographic, 16 Oct. 2019
• The report offers many curatives, the details of which are too arcane and lengthy to get into here.
  — Wesley J. Smith, National Review, 27 Sep. 2019
• This is not the place to deal with the arcane arguments made by him and his adversary Radhakanta Deb.
  — Jaithirth Rao, Quartz India, 4 Nov. 2019
• That’s fascinating, or me at least, but way too arcane to include in the story.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 31 May 2018
• People got some of the most arcane and insane references about cavemen and stuff.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2021
• On the eve of the vote, Norment made a last-gasp effort to kill the plan with an arcane procedural move in the Finance Committee.
  — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 4 June 2018
• Zalatoris has been on a four-year drive to earn full membership on the PGA Tour via the arcane rules that provide golfers a path to climb out of the lower rungs of golf.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 15 June 2021
• On the sidelines, where people pored over arcane PowerPoints of voter data, the mood was grimmer.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
• In their initial explorations, the biologists, clad in their yellow gloves, carried out a series of ever more arcane rituals.
  — Jeff Vandermeer, WIRED, 22 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Jan 2025