Sample sentences for CONSPICUOUS

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Definition

easily noticed — typically attracting attention such as by being large, flashy, or unusual

She tried not to look conspicuous as she slipped into class after the tardy bell.

conspicuous = easily noticed — typically attracting attention such as by being large, flashy, or unusual

She is the most conspicuous person on the President's cabinet. She is constantly interviewed on television.
She wears a conspicuous cross around her neck and never misses a chance to talk about Jesus.
a tower conspicuous at a great distance
I conspicuously rearranged the nubbins in my nose.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

conspicuously = in an easily noticed manner

Profound silence; silence so deep that even their breathings were conspicuous in the hush.
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

conspicuous = attracting attention by being easily heard

conspicuous = easily noticed so as to attract attention

They came out and went back on to the path where the trees might possibly make them less conspicuous.
C.S. Lewis -- The Voyage of the Dawn Trader

conspicuous = easily seen

I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to skulk about behind that silly and conspicuous front design.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The Yellow Wallpaper

conspicuous = very noticeable (attention-attracting)

...his talk was conspicuous for an eagerness to apply military similes to a very wide variety of matters.
Kazuo Ishiguro -- The Remains of the Day

conspicuous = easily noticed

this group of rich and conspicuous people.
Edith Wharton -- The House of Mirth

conspicuous = prominent (easily noticed)

Anyway, you should never be conspicuous.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn -- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

conspicuous = easily noticed so as to attract attention

My tenderness of heart was even so conspicuous as to make me the jest of my companions.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Black Cat

conspicuous = easily noticed

He would have seen on Stone's desk the new textbook and bookmark, and on top of them, conspicuously perhaps, this letter.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
SJ was the only white player on his twelve-and-under AAU basketball team, and most of the black players were conspicuously poor.
Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
We all gathered around Angel, but then I remembered how conspicuous we were.
James Patterson -- The Angel Experiment
But the rest of the queen's men were conspicuous in their absence.
George R.R. Martin -- A Dance With Dragons
Roscoe, who usually could not be prevented from greeting me with a full body attack, was conspicuously absent.
Sarah Dessen -- Lock and Key
It was conspicuous far to sea both on the east and west and might have been entered as a sailing mark upon the chart.
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Treasure Island
When the old man's cough worsened, they would duck into a museum or café, careful to avoid places where they might be conspicuous.
Tim O'Brien -- Going After Cacciato

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