How To Use Inconspicuous In A Sentence

Her comfort was far less important than her inconspicuousness. Beautiful Disaster
Thallus of very minute inconspicuous and evanescent, brown-black granules; apothecia minute, 0.2 to 0.4 mm. in diameter, adnate, dark brown to black, scattered or clustered, plain with a thin concolorous exciple visible, to convex with the exciple finally covered; hypothecium dark brown; hymenium pale brown; asci clavate; paraphyses coherent-indistinct; spores oblong-ellipsoid, 9 to 15 mic. long and 5 to Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
The flowers are for the most part conspicuous, and in plan like that of the adder's-tongue; but some, like the rushes (Fig. 83, _E_), have small, inconspicuous flowers; and others, like the yams and smilaxes, have flowers of two kinds, male and female. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
The instances are inconspicuous, but do make for a slight forcing of the effect towards hyperbole.
As long as a pupil is quiet, inconspicuous and conformist, everything is fine.

Like its grifter characters, it's only as flashy as it needs to be and knows the value of being inconspicuous.
Remember peroxide is bleach so test an inconspicuous spot first for color fastness.
Even on reefs, most species of host actinians are inconspicuous, unlike their partner fish.
With its small garden courtyard, the club looked, from the outside, more like an inconspicuous Renaissance home than a den of dance iniquity.
Effluent discharges are often made inconspicuous by buildings or the frequent disappearance of the watercourse into culverts.
She wanted an inconspicuous house close to Dublin city centre.
Ladies 'Mantle, Alchemilla -- a common inconspicuous weed, found everywhere -- is called Great Sanicle, also Parsley-breakstone, or Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
Sitting towards the back of the hall was an inconspicuous, balding, bespectacled man with a slight stammer.
`We're not exactly... hut... inconspicuous... hut... Stone. CORMORANT
I'll try to be as inconspicuous as possible.
A moderately proportioned vampire bat pendant to aid inconspicuous fraternisation.
The most important point of the entire article is tucked inconspicuously into a paragraph, making it almost unnoticeable.
Are you looking for social activities that don't involve drinking or are you trying to be an inconspicuous teetotaler?
But if you get a spot on a fresh garment, try washing or cleaning off just the spot with plain water or a commercial spot remover or a cleaning fluid (unless the garment is a silk or other fabric that may water-spot or unless the spot cleaning may leave a ring or faded spot -- test your procedure first in an inconspicuous area). Boing Boing: September 25, 2005 - October 1, 2005 Archives
Dressed in a short-skirted black suit, adorned only by a knockout of an emerald ring, matching ear bobs and a few inconspicuous tattoos, Jolie looks both unattainably gorgeous and improbably of-this-world. Action figure: Angelina Jolie is out to prove she's an actress worth her 'Salt'
All the chapters are inconspicuously but intentionally divided into small titled but unnumbered sections rarely longer than a page, and in each of those certain concept, idea or unresolved problem is discussed.
More money brought more affection for inconspicuousness. The House That Goldman Built
Low additional weight, unconstrained comfort, inconspicuous exterior.
In the 1990's a number of residential projects in cismontane oak savannahs and open mixed chaparral habitats are likely to endanger some back country populations of this inconspicuous annual.
They become ‘unhandy’ and in this unhandiness they fail to serve the function that they had served so inconspicuously up to that point.
The flowers are inconspicuous, usually white or cream and pedunculate, ascending or erect, corymbose cymes, collected into a terminal leafless panicle, or the lower peduncles arising from the axis of reduced leaves. Chapter 17
In the end, I skived off to a side street and made myself as inconspicuous as possible so I could get up to date.
Skerryvore, but one oval nodule of black-trap, sparsely bedabbled with an inconspicuous fucus, and alive in every crevice with a dingy insect between a slater and a bug. Memories and Portraits
This riddle of a restaurant is shamelessly unpretentious, and if you've never noticed its inconspicuous façade, you are forgiven.
Thallus granulose to verrucose and subareolate, sometimes inconspicuous and evanescent; apothecia minute to middle-sized, adnate or more or less immersed, exciple usually prominent and persistent, but sometimes becoming covered, disk flat to convex; hypothecium and hymenium pale to brown; spores simple, hyaline, minute, numerous in each ascus. Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
He hid in a locker room or hallway during the anthem, trying to make his absence inconspicuous.
This may have served the purpose of camouflage, making the animal more inconspicuous.
He realized that the way to look completely inconspicuous was to look extremely odd. THE SHADOWS OF POWER
Inconspicuously, she made a snowball and threw it at Tara.
He was fairly inconspicuous following Melstead, even at this time of the morning. THE LAST RAVEN
The rest of us split up into pairs - me and Joanna, Mac and Miss Halden - and headed back to my place, trying to look inconspicuous when in fact we looked like the dregs of an army division after three days' combat.
When people want a nice, inconspicuous, unobstructive car for a stealthy and unobstructive mission, they don't go around borrowing Bentley Continentals. The Satan Bug
Thallus of very minute inconspicuous and evanescent, brown-black granules; apothecia minute, 0.2 to 0.4 mm. in diameter, adnate, dark brown to black, scattered or clustered, plain with a thin concolorous exciple visible, to convex with the exciple finally covered; hypothecium dark brown; hymenium pale brown; asci clavate; paraphyses coherent-indistinct; spores oblong-ellipsoid, 9 to 15 mic. long and 5 to Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
We crouched low behind boulders, striving for inconspicuousness while Wehausen unpacked his telemetry equipment to see if any radio-collared sheep were in the vicinity.
Rushing toward the cemetery, I decided that inconspicuousness would be the best way to approach.
Sitting towards the back of the hall was an inconspicuous, balding, bespectacled man with a slight stammer.
My pride is my biggest weapon and my own biggest enemy, but right now it's the only thing standing between me slipping into the shadows, unmissed and inconspicuous or left waiting. Etherea Diary Entry
The balloon fish depends upon its inconspicuousness and harmony with its environment in the struggle for existence, for, no doubt, there are in the sea fish so strong of stomach as to accept it without a spasm. The Confessions of a Beachcomber
Daemon seated himself as inconspicuously as possible while his shipmates mingled raucously with the riff-raff that populated the bar.
If they really wanted us to be inconspicuous why don't they have us wear all black like the set changers at the theater?
Aberrant in other respects, the swamp pheasant disobeys this law, and justifies its disobedience by inconspicuousness. Last Leaves from Dunk Island
When using a recommended cleaning agent, always pretest it in an inconspicuous area, such as the back of a tie or an inside seam. Getting out that damned spot with new iPhone app from Tide
An inconspicuous cleft within steep red cliffs marks its entrance; the cliffs themselves rise abruptly from a wide, dry plain, dotted with ancient boab trees.
To fragrance your kitchen cabinets and drawers, place a good scent dabbed on a cotton ball into an inconspicuous comer.
The things that affect the viewer most are often inconspicuous, undramatic.
The flowers are for the most part conspicuous, and in plan like that of the adder's-tongue; but some, like the rushes (Fig. 83, _E_), have small, inconspicuous flowers; and others, like the yams and smilaxes, have flowers of two kinds, male and female. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
The leaflets are ovate to lanceolate, sometimes hastate, and are subtended by inconspicuous stipels.
Pine and Ting became engrossed in this lovers ' tiff and were trying to remain inconspicuous so as not to interrupt the proceedings. THE MANANA MAN
The young man drove until he reached an inconspicuous building near the center of the town.
These are the second pair of appendages on the body, and are usually rather inconspicuous in arachnids, but in scorpions, they are large and powerful pincers which may be used to grasp and subdue prey.
Inconspicuous flowers appear in spring followed by soft, downy, grey-green fruits.
He realized that the way to look completely inconspicuous was to look extremely odd. THE SHADOWS OF POWER
The jumping bristletails are an inconspicuous group, looking much like their better-known cousins, the silverfish.
Many inconspicuous moves to subordinate independent delegacies to Council have slipped through.
Thallus of very minute inconspicuous and evanescent, brown-black granules; apothecia minute, 0.2 to 0.4 mm. in diameter, adnate, dark brown to black, scattered or clustered, plain with a thin concolorous exciple visible, to convex with the exciple finally covered; hypothecium dark brown; hymenium pale brown; asci clavate; paraphyses coherent-indistinct; spores oblong-ellipsoid, 9 to 15 mic. long and 5 to Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
It was at the Berteliére that I observed lapdogs at every table and decided to take Gregory into the dining room - telling him he was far too big to sit on my lap and would have to make himself as inconspicuous as possible.
Thallus granulose to verrucose and subareolate, sometimes inconspicuous and evanescent; apothecia minute to middle-sized, adnate or more or less immersed, exciple usually prominent and persistent, but sometimes becoming covered, disk flat to convex; hypothecium and hymenium pale to brown; spores simple, hyaline, minute, numerous in each ascus. Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
She grinned as I inconspicuously grimaced and longed to duck beneath the covers.
They have unisexual flowers, are wind-pollinated, and apparently have a very short and inconspicuous flowering time so that the presence of flowers is easily overlooked.
The security tag, which is usually inconspicuous, is removed by the showroom wardens only prior to delivery.
In ferns the prominent generation is the sporophyte, the inconspicuous prothallus is hardly noticed and often overlooked or mistaken for a leave on the ground. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
I'll try to be as inconspicuous as possible.
The greatest threat to humans comes from the stingrays, large flatfish that lie inconspicuously on the seabed in shallow waters.
It will be remembered that in some of the _Cinchonaceæ_, e.g. _Mussænda_, _Pinckneya_, _Calycophyllum_, one or more of the calycine lobes are normally dilated and petaloid, the others remaining small and comparatively inconspicuous. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
You get to observe so much when you are travelling through random towns as an inconspicuous anonymous nobody.
The way on from here was a slither down an inconspicuous and rather grotty looking muddy hole.
They in turn had advised her to move out inconspicuously and to leave no forwarding address. THE SECRET OF THE FORGOTTEN CITY
If they really wanted us to be inconspicuous why don't they have us wear all black like the set changers at the theater?
An inconspicuous but efficient Swiss waiter was serving hot drinks to the apres-ski crew. Rama Revisited
making odd hand or finger movements that are not typically dyskinetic, performing inconspicuous repetitive actions (e.g., making a series of clicking sounds before or after speaking, tapping or automatically touching objects while walking about), mutism, psychomotor retardation, or speech that becomes progressively less voluble until it becomes a nonunderstandable mumble (prosectic speech). The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
It's hard to be inconspicuous when you are driving a car that advertises your recent nuptials.
There was some simple, radical difference about him; he hoped it was genius, feared it was madness, devoted himself to amiability and inconspicuousness. The Worst Years of Your Life
She shrank down on to the hard bench, trying to make herself as small and inconspicuous as possible. YELLOW BIRD
Thallus granulose to verrucose and subareolate, sometimes inconspicuous and evanescent; apothecia minute to middle-sized, adnate or more or less immersed, exciple usually prominent and persistent, but sometimes becoming covered, disk flat to convex; hypothecium and hymenium pale to brown; spores simple, hyaline, minute, numerous in each ascus. Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
This type of bird is very inconspicuous because of its dull feathers.
By day, he is an inconspicuous odd job man in his forties.
Indeed, the surest sign of craft is its inconspicuousness.
But the easy music and inconspicuous action is made jarring by the fact that the man is naked.
An inconspicuous, soft-spoken man, Bruckheimer contradicts the stereotype of the high-powered Hollywood executive.
Concrete suggests modesty, not only by virtue of its cost, and thus its association with utilitarian or unfinished structures, but in the bland inconspicuousness of its color and texture. Why Hadid's MAXXI Works
Liz walked on inconspicuously until the headstocks of two B.C. Rich guitars closed in front of her.
Be sure to test in an inconspicuous area prior to use, to ensure that the fabric is color fast.
The shy girl tried to make herself as inconspicuous as possible.
Pine and Ting became engrossed in this lovers ' tiff and were trying to remain inconspicuous so as not to interrupt the proceedings. THE MANANA MAN
A comparison of a fly and fish fate map reveals further dramatic differences between the relative size occupied by the anlagen for various organs: for example in the fish the brain anlage occupies a very large fraction of the gastrula, while the epidermis is rather inconspicuous, compared to its dominance in the fly map. Nobel Lecture The Identification Of Genes Controlling Development In Flies And Fishes
To check whether an errant husband is spending whole nights with his mistress in another house, the detectives need to perform long-term surveillance from an inconspicuous location.
Are you looking for social activities that don't involve drinking or are you trying to be an inconspicuous teetotaler?
The bathroom is easily scented by placing oil-scented cotton balls in inconspicuous places, or sprinkle oils directly onto silk or dried flower arrangements or wreaths.
These inconspicuous larvae cling to the stalk of the plant and can easily go unnoticed.
There was pathos in the evocatively dovetailed dialogues with the strings; left-hand chords emerged inconspicuously from tuttis, the melody poised evanescently above.
Thallus of very minute inconspicuous and evanescent, brown-black granules; apothecia minute, 0.2 to 0.4 mm. in diameter, adnate, dark brown to black, scattered or clustered, plain with a thin concolorous exciple visible, to convex with the exciple finally covered; hypothecium dark brown; hymenium pale brown; asci clavate; paraphyses coherent-indistinct; spores oblong-ellipsoid, 9 to 15 mic. long and 5 to Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
This type of bird is very inconspicuous because of its dull feathers.
In order to be inconspicuous and not arouse the attention of any Socialists, I've asked you to attend in disguise this month.
On the hill-tops, among rocks gigantic of mould and fantastic of shape, a less known orchid with inconspicuous flowers yields a perfume reminiscent of the violet; the shady places on the flats are showy with giant crinum lilies. My Tropic Isle
To get a http 1.1 500 internal server error for how goddamn galvani the asystole pilaf inconspicuousness on gunsight eosin dotted, i plumate to do a unsuitably ouranopithecus. POWET.TV
If this weird shit was going down all around him, it would pay to be as inconspicuous as possible.
This type of bird is very inconspicuous because of its dull feathers.
Thallus granulose to verrucose and subareolate, sometimes inconspicuous and evanescent; apothecia minute to middle-sized, adnate or more or less immersed, exciple usually prominent and persistent, but sometimes becoming covered, disk flat to convex; hypothecium and hymenium pale to brown; spores simple, hyaline, minute, numerous in each ascus. Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
In order to be inconspicuous, many followers of such religions meet in private.
Probably it may be quite common in similar localities, but its size, its brief periodicity, and inconspicuousness, contribute to make it, at present, one of the rarities of botany. Tropic Days
If, when you are out, you can inconspicuously run a clean powder-puff over your face, no one will accuse you of indelicacy.
She shrank down on to the hard bench, trying to make herself as small and inconspicuous as possible. YELLOW BIRD
We sat down at the table, with Joe lurking inconspicuously nearby.
It is wind-born pollen from plants that have inconspicuous flowers like wild grasses or ragweed that are the major causes of respiratory allergy.
Place small dishes of the bait in inconspicuous spots around the home.
Try an inconspicuous place like a hem or facing if you don't have extra fabric.
On a preshow shopping jaunt in the resort's theme park, Jackson rendered himself inconspicuous with a hooded ninja-style get-up, while Milken went with the postprison toupeeless look. Odd Couples
She had remembered it only as a bleak inconspicuousness. Main Street
`We're not exactly... hut... inconspicuous... hut... Stone. CORMORANT
Cones from 6 to 20 cm. in length, pendent on peduncles of various lengths, the peduncle often remaining on the tree after the fall of the cone; apophyses fulvous brown, dull or sublustrous, the margin rounded or tapering to an acute apex, sometimes a little prolonged and reflexed, the umbo inconspicuous. The Genus Pinus
They had clearly tried to be inconspicuous, arriving in an unmarked white van with the legend Bell Mate Coffee.
When I start a temp job I try and remain inconspicuous, keeping quiet in the corner and not drawing too much attention to myself.
This type of bird is very inconspicuous because of its dull feathers.
You might try wiping lightly with a sponge dampened in suds and water; testing first in an inconspicuous spot to be sure the water won't stain the covering.
Butterwort is a relatively inconspicuous plant, which makes its home on wet heaths, bogs and mountain ledges.
Trying to be inconspicuous, for reasons unbeknownst to her, she looked past Shamus to the writing all over his walls, trying to read the words bordering them.
Cones indehiscent, from 9 to 14 cm. long, short-pedunculate, ovoid-conical or subcylindrical; apophyses dull pale nut-brown, rugose, shrinking much in drying and exposing the seeds, prolonged and tapering to a more or less reflexed tip, the umbo inconspicuous; seeds large, wingless, the spermoderm entire. The Genus Pinus
Flowers in both species are apetalous, with short, inconspicuous calyx lobes and no nectaries.
He was fairly inconspicuous following Melstead, even at this time of the morning. THE LAST RAVEN
Daemon seated himself as inconspicuously as possible while his shipmates mingled raucously with the riff-raff that populated the bar.
Seed-producing plants are probably the most familiar plants to most people, unlike mosses, liverworts, horsetails, and most other seedless plants which are overlooked because of their size or inconspicuous appearance.
The eyepiece inconspicuously attaches to your glasses - appearing as the equivalent of a full-size monitor to your proximate eye.
he had entered the room inconspicuously
The result attained is the conviction that no blue is really inconspicuous, and that some of the harsh new slaty tints are no less striking than the deeper shades they have superseded. Fighting France
Less than eight inches tall, the annuals are inconspicuous, and were growing in a balding area between full chaparral and non-native grassland.
It is imperative to have a foot patrol which is a very efficient way of controlling inconspicuous poaching activities.
Were white rhinestone suits the most inconspicuous garments to wear?
The things that affect the viewer most are often inconspicuous, undramatic.
It is wind-born pollen from plants that have inconspicuous flowers like wild grasses or ragweed that are the major causes of respiratory allergy.
he pushed the string through an inconspicuous hole
A comparison of a fly and fish fate map reveals further dramatic differences between the relative size occupied by the anlagen for various organs: for example in the fish the brain anlage occupies a very large fraction of the gastrula, while the epidermis is rather inconspicuous, compared to its dominance in the fly map. Nobel Lecture The Identification Of Genes Controlling Development In Flies And Fishes
He was ferreting around for his cash when one of them allegedly spotted a bobby on patrol, and as he made himself look inconspicuous they swapped the laptop case for another.
When they are raising young or robbing nests, Steller's Jays become very quiet and inconspicuous.
Their inconspicuous nature, relatively small numbers, and irruptive behavior make it difficult to monitor the population.
The house's inconspicuousness is what attracted the mother of three to it in the first place.
I had been gadding around the country learning how to be totally inconspicuous and acquiring the rudiments of "tradecraft", as John le Carré would have called it. Top stories from Times Online
The newer synthetic lacquers are more durable, however older lacquered pieces and many imports have finishes affected by some solvents, so test every product first on an inconspicuous area.
If this weird shit was going down all around him, it would pay to be as inconspicuous as possible.
A secret streamlet trickles on beneath the heavy cover of inertia and pseudo-events, slowly and inconspicuously undercutting it.
Inconspicuously, a three piece ensemble plays background music.
There is an extremely common, though inconspicuous, English weed, the mouse-ear chickweed, found everywhere in flower-beds or grass-plots, however small, and noticeable for its quaint little horn-shaped capsules. Science in Arcady
A bird uttering subsong is usually perched low and in an inconspicuous place; the beak may be closed while singing. Subsong is not confined in out-of-season utterances and may readily be heard during the period of full song.
For 170 years Ballina's Augustinian Abbey has lain derelict and inconspicuous at the bottom of Ardnaree near St Muredach's Cathedral.
As for her dirty top and messy hair, there would not be anything inconspicuous about that.
In May, a long period of heavy rain caused the Silie River, usually an inconspicuous trickle of water, to change into a roaring, ten-foot-tall tidal wave that one night swept ramshackle wooden shacks away like matchwood.
And that's how we ended up in Nakayuki (Little Break), an inconspicuous bar in the village of Onna, taking turns on a traditional three-stringed guitar, eating dragon fruit, necking guava juice laced with awamori and "pushing the happiness" until 3am. News On Japan
Remember peroxide is bleach so test an inconspicuous spot first for color fastness.
His inconspicuousness depressed him and his depression made him even more inconspicuous.
InaplatformerMario, forinstance,ifyouseeaninconspicuous coinfloating somewhere in a seemingly unreachable position, chances are that you want to get that coin more than those lying on the floor. "Having that sort of information gap is sort of like a puzzle or a riddle."
When they are raising young or robbing nests, they are very quiet and inconspicuous.
There was pathos in the evocatively dovetailed dialogues with the strings; left-hand chords emerged inconspicuously from tuttis, the melody poised evanescently above.
Zela was disguised in an inconspicuous cloak as she entered the castle.
Inconspicuously dressed in a kilt, sporran, dagger, and ‘black mask of Osiris’, Crowley crept down the suburban road from Olympia and bamboozled his way into the sacred vaults.
Thallus thin and inconspicuous, or becoming thick and more prominent, composed of rounded and often crowded or even heaped granules, these frequently compacted into a continuous or scattered, verrucose and often chinky, green-gray to olivaceous crust; apothecia small to large, 0.6 to Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
To top it all, heads of civic organisations were shunted out to inconspicuous postings when major projects were in crucial stages.
The neoplastic epithelial cells were cuboidal and had round or oval nuclei and inconspicuous nucleoli.

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