conspicuous

How To Use conspicuous In A Sentence

• a tower conspicuous at a great distance
• Local people were conspicuously absent from the meeting.
• They say that the mark of a great team is the ability to grind out results when they are below par, and this was another conspicuous example.
• Her comfort was far less important than her inconspicuousness. Beautiful Disaster
• The most conspicuous result now is the Rideau Canal, an immensely expensive waterway that terminates in Ottawa.
• There were passages when Glasgow looked markedly the better side and played with much of the zing which was so often conspicuously absent last season.
• Viv was British rugby's pre-eminent full-back through the 1930s, last line and top dog for Wales and the Lions, an Oxford double blue, a Glamorgan cricketer and, conspicuously, the first full-back ever to score a try in a Five Nations match – against Ireland in 1934. Tons of reasons to support the monarchs of sport | Frank Keating
• Granulomata themselves were comparatively infrequent, and other histological features characteristic of Crohn's disease were less conspicuous than usual.
• One name conspicuous by its absence was that of Nigel Kneale, whom Whitaker contacted very early on.
• It is true that this explanation of the bright, conspicuous colours is only a hypothesis, but its foundations -- unpalatableness, and the liability of other butterflies to be eaten, -- are certain, and its consequences -- the existence of mimetic palatable forms -- conform it in the most convincing manner. Evolution in Modern Thought