How to Use obvious in a Sentence

obvious

adjective

• The answer seems obvious enough to me.
• It was obvious that things weren't working out.
• The obvious question is: how did he become so successful?
• She saw only the most obvious differences.
• For obvious reasons, I would not like to reveal my name.
• The problem was immediately obvious to everyone in the room.
• He was the obvious candidate for president.
• Her doctor immediately noticed the obvious signs of the disease.
• Thanks to the striped print, the shirring isn’t as obvious.
  — Jessica Booth, Parents, 2 June 2024
• A lot of the time the path to doing the right thing isn’t obvious.
  — Gregory Barber, WIRED, 15 Feb. 2023
• The biggest and most obvious change from E30 to E36 is the car’s size.
  — Kyle Hyatt, Robb Report, 24 June 2024
• The magnitude of the problem is not obvious to much of the city.
  — Richard Schiffman Erin Schaff, New York Times, 8 June 2023
• The last is obvious: the opponent can’t try to evade the slap.
  — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
• The most obvious is the sheer delight the series takes in food.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2024
• The smokey smell was obvious and its flavor was more present in the meat versus the sauce.
  — Quincy Bulin, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 July 2023
• The chilly Baltic Sea may not seem like the most obvious place to skinny dip.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 29 May 2024
• What is less obvious is how Biden should get out of it.
  — Ross Douthat, The Mercury News, 13 Feb. 2024
• Too much of its blood and fire is the work of computers, and for the first time, that work is obvious.
  — Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
• The appeal of longevity is obvious: the longer these women are on the show, the more they get paid.
  — Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 30 Mar. 2023
• The appeal for fans is obvious, but the functions are a win-win.
  — Charlotte Collins, Architectural Digest, 1 Aug. 2024
• And this might seem obvious, but the oceans give us ... water.
  — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2024
• All of which leads to the most obvious question of all time: Is there a Tayvis duet in our future?
  — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• Mesa Drive This one is a bit obvious — Mesa Drive is named after the city.
  — Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 8 July 2024
• Joan wisely gives Jonathan the Prom King crown and an obvious rose to the big-time contender.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2024
• And there isn’t an obvious choice to snatch the baton from Álvarez once his time is over.
  — Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• And the most obvious target for future work is our Sun.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2023
• If the general theme was a mystery, the one obvious link was the act of reaching into the past.
  — Juan J. Arroyo, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2023
• Huawei appears to use these two approaches in the Watch D2, which is smart and obvious at the same time.
  — Andrew Williams, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
• The defensive line is an obvious area of concern for San Francisco.
  — Vincent Frank, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
• These scenes spell out too much obvious stuff about the pattern of unfeeling masculinity that shapes boys into harsh men, toughening them up supposedly for their own good.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024