How to Use esoteric in a Sentence

esoteric

adjective

• Riesling from everywhere is still undervalued as are wines made from esoteric grapes.
  — Elin McCoy, Bloomberg.com, 7 Dec. 2020
• The global hits on Netflix in the U.S. are a long way from the esoteric fare that has defined foreign art on screen for years.
  — Ellen Gamerman, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2020
• Scenes from across the city are interspersed with more esoteric interpretations of Tunisian life.
  — New York Times, 12 Jan. 2021
• All this is to say that even Newton was deep in his pseudoscience cups, studying alchemy and searching for esoteric meaning in different places.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 7 Dec. 2020
• The aim is to create the equivalent of a standard gold bar—a new benchmark for an industry that has struggled with the challenges of valuing esoteric stones in an opaque market. ...
  — Amrith Ramkumar, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2020
• Not so long ago, the discovery of esoteric knowledge was a rite unto itself, requiring research and travel, as many dead ends as discoveries.
  — Steffie Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2020
• People like Newton decided Egyptians had secret, esoteric knowledge that had been lost.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 7 Dec. 2020
• In the esoteric world of the oil options market, consumers, notably airlines, tend to manage their fuel bills by purchasing call options to cap what is normally their single biggest cost.
  — Alex Longley, Bloomberg.com, 9 Oct. 2020
• The esoteric title is the name of one of the game’s rarest pitches.
  — Alissa Simon, Variety, 20 May 2024
• Is that a way to add some vagueness to the meaning of the song, by giving it an esoteric name?
  — Chris Varias, The Enquirer, 13 July 2022
• The network still doesn’t want your show to be too esoteric or too smart.
  — Margaret Gray, latimes.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• The refraction of that bright star’s light by our atmosphere is one of the more esoteric sights in the skies above.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 30 May 2021
• This bodes well for The Night Agent and maybe less good for people drawn to Netflix’s more esoteric fare.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 15 Dec. 2023
• There's a cornucopia of esoteric deals on this one page—or rather ten pages—of deals, so go nuts.
  — Nena Farrell, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2023
• The titles of some concert tours can be a bit esoteric.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 15 Mar. 2022
• With so much esoteric imagery, this fever dream of a novel runs hot and cold.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 8 July 2020
• The skills required are esoteric, and the risk of spending years of effort for little progress is great.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
• Permit me to ask an esoteric question: is there such a thing as too much snow?
  — Todd Nelson, Star Tribune, 13 Mar. 2021
• Of course, there’s a driver to take you the 90-second journey to the central lifts and a concierge, too, who’ll finesse any of your needs, from the mundane to the esoteric.
  — Tom Weijand, Robb Report, 15 Feb. 2024
• This year the show’s theme is a little more esoteric than usual.
  — Vogue, 15 Apr. 2024
• This is not an esoteric dilemma: There are more pathogens out there poised to spill into the human species.
  — Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2023
• Many of these will appeal to collectors with a penchant for the rare and esoteric.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 16 Jan. 2023
• Rob fumbles, then pressures the singer to explain some of her esoteric lyrics about love.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2023
• Also because its actions are couched in the esoteric language of the law.
  — Bob Egelko, SFChronicle.com, 30 Nov. 2019
• Down the road, though, lead in solder may pose more esoteric concerns.
  — Dave Plank, WIRED, 1 Sep. 2000
• Its sound has the freeness of jazz, the esoteric textures of psychedelia and the unpredictability of prog-rock.
  — Jeff Milo, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2017
• Gala, Dalí’s muse, business partner and agent, had a penchant for the esoteric.
  — Nina Kravinsky, Smithsonian, 7 Nov. 2019
• That friend of yours who is into some esoteric poet from the 1700s that just totally speaks to the world today?
  — Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 27 Feb. 2023
• But often, the biggest vulnerabilities come not from esoteric software issues, but from gaping errors that leave the safe door open and the crown jewels exposed.
  — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 2 Aug. 2024
• So scientists are left with computer models and other esoteric techniques to try to figure out, for example, how the radioactive matter in nuclear bombs changes over many decades in storage.
  — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Sep 2024