How to Use conspicuous in a Sentence

conspicuous

adjective

• The sign was placed in a very conspicuous spot.
• The bird has a conspicuous red head.
• There were a number of conspicuous changes to the building.
• She felt very conspicuous in her pink coat.
• The business was a conspicuous success.
• He was uncomfortable about his conspicuous weight gain.
• New state data show conspicuous gaps in who has been vaccinated.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2021
• Critics counter that this most conspicuous of consumption is a sign of decadence and a broken society.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 8 June 2021
• In an earlier model, the shackles were more conspicuous.
  — New York Times, 19 June 2021
• Since that Olympic boom, conspicuous wealth has skyrocketed in the country’s biggest cities.
  — Stacey Anderson, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2021
• Spirit bears, like the one Valberg photographed, are highly conspicuous from a human standpoint, but this is not the case for a salmon looking up through the water.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 1 June 2021
• And half-measures are all the more conspicuous as other countries start to reckon with what the 2050 climate goals actually mean.
  — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 25 May 2021
• While the prevalence of vaccine misinformation has been especially conspicuous of late, this is hardly a new practice at Fox.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 13 July 2021
• The June jobs report did contain one conspicuous blemish: The unemployment rate actually ticked up last month.
  — Paul Wiseman, Star Tribune, 2 July 2021
• This latter explanation is made somewhat harder to imagine by the fact that giant river otters tend to live in large, conspicuous groups, and this individual was seen swimming alone.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 June 2021
• In the long term, though, the most conspicuous effects of the IoT will be in how the world works.
  — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
• In fact, there was a conspicuous lack of them at the piers that day.
  — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Sep. 2021
• Most conspicuous of all are the glinting hobnails in the sole of the boot on the left.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019
• The change in tone and the loss of shame and guilt in her last novel are conspicuous.
  — Ankita Chakraborty, Longreads, 8 June 2018
• The heroine of the piece is a naked mole rat named Sweety, a conspicuous weirdo.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2019
• But the split with the golfers born after 1985 could not be more conspicuous.
  — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2022
• The movie is at its best when those traces are most conspicuous.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
• But cheers came from a conspicuous corner of the world.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2022
• But over the past two to three years, consumers have seen a conspicuous shift in the look of the poinsettia.
  — Adrian Higgins, kansascity, 14 Dec. 2017
• So far, the fight over fur has been far more conspicuous.
  — J. David Goodman, New York Times, 14 July 2019
• Leafy greens are a conspicuous absence from most of the book’s recipes.
  — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Apr. 2018
• Of course, the most conspicuous visual changes are right in the cockpit.
  — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 26 Jan. 2023
• But conspicuous in their absence are the bulk of the leaders of the world’s major economies.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2023
• Some have criticized such a conspicuous display of wealth amid worsening income inequality in India, where almost half the population lives on less than $3.60 — the poverty line defined by the World Bank.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 12 July 2024
• That’s particularly true of the more conspicuous philanthropic efforts.
  — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 July 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024