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  • Yet, for such a large family it's unusually quiet, and the clatter of silverware on china makes the lack of conversation even more conspicuous.†   (source)
  • I was going on thirteen and self-conscious, so I planned to slip my bathing suit on underneath my dress, but I worried this would only make me more conspicuous, so I took a deep breath and stepped out of my clothes.†   (source)
  • There is only a single distinguishing characteristic that is absolutely reliable: On the underside of the wild potato's tiny green leaflets are conspicuous lateral veins; such veins are invisible on the leaflets of the wild sweet pea.†   (source)
  • Military units drilled openly, and though powered aircraft were forbidden under the Versailles Treaty, the strength of the burgeoning Luftwaffe was on conspicuous display over an airfield, where gliders swooped over impressed tourists and Hitler Youth.†   (source)
  • But the most conspicuous difference was the books.†   (source)
  • They're too conspicuous.†   (source)
  • The clothes had been laundered until their color had faded, and they had been conspicuously patched.†   (source)
  • We see it every day: in the obituaries for teenage kids that conspicuously omit the cause of death (reading between the lines: overdose), in the deadbeats we watch our daughters waste their time with.†   (source)
  • He leads us to the right side of the Pit, which is conspicuously dark.†   (source)
  • Kids like Shea were used because they were less conspicuous, and less likely to be stopped by police officers.†   (source)
  • Watching the kiss, Laila felt strangely conspicuous all at once.†   (source)
  • The girl stood there just long enough to let us know she was offended and then stalked off, her notepad swinging conspicuously from one hand.†   (source)
  • With luck, one of them will have a conspicuously absent orb.†   (source)
  • They did it in groups today; Harry, Ron, and Hermione (the most conspicuous, since they were accompanied by Pigwidgeon and Crookshanks) went first; they leaned casually against the barrier, chatting unconcernedly, and slid sideways through it....and as they did so, platform nine and three-quarters materialized in front of them.†   (source)
  • We positioned ourselves around the cherrywood consulting table rather like guests at a club who are conspicuously not membership material.†   (source)
  • Inside the Monk Building, conspicuously posted signs led them down a series of corridors, past a room where a handful of parents waited anxiously, and at last into a room crowded with children in desks.†   (source)
  • Even his clothes, no matter how worn-out, were conspicuously neat and well kept.†   (source)
  • Owen Meany, who had been so conspicuous—all my life—was easily overlooked at the University of New Hampshire.†   (source)
  • The owner was a conspicuously charming man, but his wasn't the voice that had seduced me weeks ago.†   (source)
  • Even across the length of the crowded hall, Viserys should have been conspicuous with his pale skin, silvery hair, and beggar's rags, but she did not see him anywhere.†   (source)
  • He was conspicuously absent from the dinner at the mayor's house, although the rest of his family came.†   (source)
  • A more conspicuous entrance than this I could not imagine.†   (source)
  • A little before eight o'clock I come downstairs with my overnight bag slung conspicuously over my shoulder.†   (source)
  • She looked for food in the pantry, but it was conspicuous by its absence; there really wasn't a thing.†   (source)
  • I had had enough narrow escapes by then to know that it was best not to be conspicuous, not to stand out, not to make myself a possible target.†   (source)
  • He was not conspicuously tall, his features were striking but not conspicuously handsome.†   (source)
  • She was conspicuous enough.†   (source)
  • And Bai Shan and I were conspicuous enough in class.†   (source)
  • Then I dug my hands deeper in my pockets and—face burning— walked conspicuously across the length of the gallery.†   (source)
  • The people on their way to work at that early hour gave us sympathetic looks; you could tell by their faces that they were sorry they couldn't offer us some kind of transportation; the conspicuous yellow star spoke for itself.†   (source)
  • It evaporated the moment he noticed the conspicuous lack of officers at his shoulders.†   (source)
  • Eragon felt conspicuous and out of place.†   (source)
  • I struggled with the conspicuous understatement.†   (source)
  • I feel conspicuous standing out here in the middle with my denim jacket on.†   (source)
  • A woman would be conspicuous, Elinor!†   (source)
  • Wed have been conspicuous, say, suddenly turning up in Texas.†   (source)
  • I picked up my towel, left the store, and started my altogether less conspicuous walk back to the inn where I had found breakfast and a bath.†   (source)
  • He noted that the walkways, pods, and platforms were conspicuously empty except for a few Templars and their diminutive crew clone counterparts.†   (source)
  • What Mack failed to consider was that his confessor worked and churched with his father, and by the time he got home his daddy was waiting for him on the front porch with his mama and sisters conspicuously absent.†   (source)
  • Not conspicuous enough.†   (source)
  • As far as the 'financial side' went, it was conspicuous by its absence.†   (source)
  • Very conspicuous, which is how they like it.†   (source)
  • As a consequence, we were less conspicuous and could take turns to have a break now that we were not always an obviously self-contained Jewish group.†   (source)
  • SJ was the only white player on his twelve-and-under AAU basketball team, and most of the black players were conspicuously poor.†   (source)
  • Alex Fierro was conspicuously absent from breakfast, though T.J. assured me he'd slipped a note under her door explaining where the lounge was for floor nineteen.†   (source)
  • You could buy mass-produced versions of these in shops well away from the main concourse, and put them in your home shrine, for gods or for the dead, but these were different, each one a carefully detailed work of art, each one conspicuously labeled with the names of the living donor and the dead recipient, so every visitor could see the pious mourning—and wealth and status—on display.†   (source)
  • She had her hair tied back with a silky black scarf that had conspicuously bright pink cherry blossoms scattered across it.†   (source)
  • My citation read: The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star medal to Hull Maintenance Technician First Class Howard E. Wasdin, United States Navy, for service set forth in the following citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action against a hostile force during operation UNOSOM II in Mogadishu, Somalia on 3 & 4 October 1993.†   (source)
  • That he spent a good deal of time asserting his own vision of the exposition's landscape is also beyond doubt, especially his belief that the Wooded Island should remain entirely free of conspicuous manmade structures.†   (source)
  • They figured I'd be less conspicuous this way.†   (source)
  • Soccer, perhaps more than ever, had become a conspicuous symbol of cultural change.†   (source)
  • The fifth-grade boys, bursting with new importance, ordered the fourth graders this way and that, while the smaller boys tried to include themselves without being conspicuous.†   (source)
  • In return, Vanger would have a conspicuous position on the magazine's board.†   (source)
  • As we walked along the dusty street, the three of us must have made quite a conspicuous sight, as many of the local residents came out to look at us.†   (source)
  • We don't have much time, but we need you to wash up and change into something a little less conspicuous.†   (source)
  • He was used to this at his high school but here he felt conspicuous, naked without his friends.†   (source)
  • Water being wasted so conspicuously that it shocked her to inner stillness.†   (source)
  • "I promise," I said in a loud, conspicuous voice.†   (source)
  • Wearing the bump made me feel so conspicuous.†   (source)
  • In the face of this stain to the family reputation, Marcos was forced to give up organ-grinding and resort to less conspicuous ways of winning over his Cousin Antonieta, but he did not renounce his goal.†   (source)
  • So their love became impossible when the carriage at her door became too conspicuous, and after three months it became nothing less than ridiculous.†   (source)
  • Jeremy Marsh sat with the rest of the live studio audience, feeling unusually conspicuous.†   (source)
  • When the old man's cough worsened, they would duck into a museum or café, careful to avoid places where they might be conspicuous.†   (source)
  • I heard footsteps on gravel, a conspicuous crunch.†   (source)
  • Over half the neon lights are out, making the lights of an all-night convenience store that much more conspicuous.†   (source)
  • Conspicuously, he did not invite McCormick of the C.D.C. The Army was finally getting its foot in the door of the building.†   (source)
  • One day, while Swanepoel was observing us from the door, Govan Mbeki began to write a note in a conspicuously secretive manner.†   (source)
  • (With conspicuously brushed hair and jacket) I'm gone†   (source)
  • Roscoe, who usually could not be prevented from greeting me with a full body attack, was conspicuously absent.†   (source)
  • Such a conspicuous purchase would naturally lead many to suspect Jake was moving up at the expense of a dead man.†   (source)
  • I just hate to be conspicuous; it's really not safe, you know.†   (source)
  • He would have seen on Stone's desk the new textbook and bookmark, and on top of them, conspicuously perhaps, this letter.†   (source)
  • Fleming, seventy-one, a former mayor of Garden City, a short man who enlivens an unsensational appearance with rather conspicuous neckwear, resisted the assignment.†   (source)
  • Stevie Rae, the Twins, and Damien were all conspicuously absent from the dorm.†   (source)
  • It was as conspicuous a warren as could well be imagined.†   (source)
  • He has rarely felt so conspicuously black.†   (source)
  • Then a small voice piped up behind her, through the doorway she'd been conspicuously blocking.†   (source)
  • She wants to argue with me, but her presence is conspicuous, and I'm not budging.†   (source)
  • I kept my chador pulled tightly, covering all but my left eye, but I still felt conspicuous and exposed.†   (source)
  • When set against the Manse's many exotic, often magnificent bedrooms, it was a conspicuously humble abode, but Max found it cozy.†   (source)
  • Yet he had attended Congress in his splendid blue and buff uniform, conspicuously signaling a readiness to take command.†   (source)
  • He took a number of photostats out of a large red expansion envelope he had been hiding conspicuously beneath a leather flight jacket painted garishly with pictures of airplanes flying through orange bursts of flak and with orderly rows of little bombs signifying fifty-five combat missions flown.†   (source)
  • It's just dawned on me that the floors of their dens are conspicuously clean.†   (source)
  • They all watched him in a moment of silence, during which he felt terribly conspicuous.†   (source)
  • A huge, conspicuous pile of stuff.†   (source)
  • But then there are so many ways to travel faster less conspicuously.†   (source)
  • We'd made the savvy decision to borrow an eight-passenger van that had apparently been a love machine back in the '80s: shag carpeting everywhere, blacked-out windows, a neon rim around the license plate that we'd immediately disabled as too conspicuous.†   (source)
  • Everyone around him has already stripped, and he's starting to look conspicuous.†   (source)
  • Then I was moving close, and coming to a stop conspicuously in the space left for pedestrians to pass through the crowd.†   (source)
  • Deo said he'd made sure it was smaller than previous ones, so it would be less conspicuous.†   (source)
  • Conspicuously absent is Hannah, who helped pull this shindig together.†   (source)
  • Under Aristotle the "Reader," whose knowledge of Trojan areté seems conspicuously absent, forms and substances dominate all.†   (source)
  • Her arms looked conspicuously bare by contrast.†   (source)
  • A W.C. to get me out of sight—for I am conspicuous—and a chemist's shop for cosmetics.†   (source)
  • A fair number of courtiers, slaves and others were still moving about here but this only made the two girls less conspicuous.†   (source)
  • In one such miscue, the other parishioners sat, leaving him conspicuously as the only one standing.†   (source)
  • Maybe the shard and the demon had been right about sending the less-conspicuous barbarians to the lair.†   (source)
  • So when on the morning of January fifth, two days before the trial was to resume, the USS Grampus made its way through the ice flows into New Haven harbor, it was a conspicuous event.†   (source)
  • If residents understood the town business, they might be willing to pay their taxes, which conspicuously they were not, to pave local roads and improve facilities for their children.†   (source)
  • Pie had seen it a thousand times in the River Guard: impeccable, careful, meticulous soldiers seemed to survive longer, or at least to be more conspicuous as they survived, though, of course, even they were sometimes instantly disemboweled by a shell that came from the blue.†   (source)
  • The famous politician had his hat off and was waving it wildly and his white hair was flowing and bobbing, conspicuous, distinguished.†   (source)
  • The most conspicuous government officials will often be the leaders or the tools of the most cunning or the biggest faction.†   (source)
  • But since his local guide was conspicuously missing it would have to wait.†   (source)
  • His voice had no conspicuous actor's mannerisms, but it was rather excessively vibrant; it "carried" implacably when he had no interest in controlling it.†   (source)
  • There is, I think, a most simple majesty in this, that in regarding one's own house or car or boat one can discover the discretionary pleasures of ownership—not at all conspicuous or competitive—and thus have another way of seeing the shape of one's life, how it has transformed and, with any luck, multiplied and grown.†   (source)
  • This had happened to him before — in an effort to disappear, he had made himself more conspicuous.†   (source)
  • His refusal to extend even this courtesy to passengers who had paid as much as any white for their tickets was so conspicuous it made me aware of the stirrings of resentment among the Negroes behind me.†   (source)
  • ANNIE now drags the box of toys into center, props up the doll conspicuously on top; with the people melted away, except for JAMES, all is again still.†   (source)
  • The worry lines became less conspicuous around his mouth and eyes.†   (source)
  • In the spring when the old homes were opened for pilgrimages, he was invited to wear his uniform and sit in some conspicuous spot and lend atmosphere to the scene.†   (source)
  • They were not going to be candidates for a Rhodes scholarship after having served an apprenticeship under my vigilant tutelage; none of them would write significantly or make any conspicuous contribution to the arts, as far as I knew.†   (source)
  • I am afraid that after leaving Moscow to escape notice, we are going to be even more conspicuous here.†   (source)
  • Mary nodded conspicuously.†   (source)
  • Around the time of his fourteenth birthday, with all the pressures of church and home uniting to drive him to the altar, he strove to appear more serious and therefore less conspicuous.†   (source)
  • It was more than frivolous, it was conspicuous, with some sort of glitter or flitter tied in a band around the straw and hanging down.†   (source)
  • He would have been a conspicuous personality anywhere, with a character and quality of his own.†   (source)
  • a tower conspicuous at a great distance
  • this group of rich and conspicuous people.   (source)
    conspicuous = prominent (easily noticed)
  • He had tried to stop them and he had conspicuously failed.†   (source)
  • Fiver and Pipkin, limping behind the others, and conspicuously undersized and tired, were being attacked by the crow.†   (source)
  • Effie Trinket, conspicuous in a bright pink wig and tailored outfit, travels with me.†   (source)
  • On the kitchen counter, the phone message pad was propped up conspicuously against a saucepan.†   (source)
  • I hold my left arm conspicuously in front of me, bent at the elbow, with the tag turned outward.†   (source)
  • A couple of angels, standing there with wings intact, would be less conspicuous.†   (source)
  • So why did Rosalie drive today if it's more conspicuous?†   (source)
  • And Michael Oher was in possession of what had to be among the more conspicuous athletic gifts.†   (source)
  • Hiking across Japan, they'd be extremely conspicuous.†   (source)
  • But new kids always felt conspicuous, he reminded himself.†   (source)
  • I would have known her anywhere in town because she was so conspicuous.†   (source)
  • They tossed some of it around so it wouldn't look conspicuous.†   (source)
  • Even though the school has a day care center for student mothers, the baby is very conspicuous.†   (source)
  • The Fugees were conspicuous as they disembarked.†   (source)
  • He went on to lecture Michael on the burdens of conspicuous success.†   (source)
  • Reynie was painfully aware of their eyes upon him — he already felt conspicuous.†   (source)
  • We were at the school now; Rosalie's red convertible was conspicuous in the parking lot.†   (source)
  • Afraid that Will would feel too conspicuous, I thanked her and said no.†   (source)
  • But as he was watching the Fugees, he noticed a conspicuous absence.†   (source)
  • Only Sharon and Maggie were conspicuously and consistently absent.†   (source)
  • Any more it seemed to me would be conspicuous.'†   (source)
  • But the wasp was conspicuous and it made her too easy to remember and identify.†   (source)
  • We all gathered around Angel, but then I remembered how conspicuous we were.†   (source)
  • Max saw Rolf Luger standing behind a score of Rowan Second Years, conspicuous among the refugees.†   (source)
  • On Friday KAB was conspicuous by its absence.†   (source)
  • There were to be two conspicuously fair trials held in the new courthouse on Queen Street.†   (source)
  • A conspicuous exception, however, were the windows of Ms.†   (source)
  • "Uh, I see," said Sir Wesley, conspicuously emphasizing the "uh" and refolding the pocket square.†   (source)
  • But the rest of the queen's men were conspicuous in their absence.†   (source)
  • The Glock was out, but held flat against my leg to be less conspicuous.†   (source)
  • Then explain it to us, said Saphira, her impatience conspicuous in the color of her thoughts.†   (source)
  • This last High Septon had been conspicuously silent regarding Tyrion.†   (source)
  • There are two soft thuds, then a louder one, and then conspicuous silence.†   (source)
  • We've got better clothes stashed with the...less-conspicuous vehicles.†   (source)
  • Hedström was conspicuous by his absence.†   (source)
  • If he was conspicuous, it was mainly because of his height.†   (source)
  • Could you pick a more conspicuous car to steal?†   (source)
  • Conspicuous by his absence was Nathanael Greene, who had been stricken with jaundice.†   (source)
  • Max thought it a rather conspicuous address for a smuggler.†   (source)
  • The one conspicuous thing about him was that he had licences for no fewer than sixteen weapons.†   (source)
  • For the crime of being short and ugly, of which I am so conspicuously guilty.†   (source)
  • The household's newfound wealth was rather conspicuous.†   (source)
  • My path back takes me through Execution Square, where the gibbets are conspicuously empty.†   (source)
  • He may well major in math and wants his average in the class to be conspicuously high.†   (source)
  • His men were everywhere, conspicuous in their striped goat's hair sashes.†   (source)
  • Conversations ceased, the silence spreading so conspicuously that the Director glanced up.†   (source)
  • No man better merited than Mr. John Adams to hold a most conspicuous place in the design.†   (source)
  • And he has just showcased a conspicuously powerful gift Lord Aamon won't like that.†   (source)
  • She holds it conspicuously in front of her, storming down the hall.†   (source)
  • August no longer comes to the cookhouse for meals, so I sit conspicuously alone at our table.†   (source)
  • A magpie, seeing some light-colored object conspicuous on the empty slope, flew closer to look.†   (source)
  • Conspicuously absent was any guaranteed protection of American seamen from British seizure.†   (source)
  • A man, a fox—even a rabbit—coming over the down would be conspicuous.†   (source)
  • He glances conspicuously at her left hand and raises an eyebrow.†   (source)
  • We were as conspicuous as a knight in armor on Fifth Avenue.†   (source)
  • The holes cut into the rear doors, under the tiny glass windows, were more conspicuous.†   (source)
  • It seemed smart to take it—less conspicuous.†   (source)
  • Now that she rode with her hat in her lap, her earrings were conspicuous too.†   (source)
  • Now these very passages seemed to him distressingly and conspicuously strained.†   (source)
  • They couldn't use ambigrams or scientific symbology because it would be far too conspicuous, so they called on an Illuminati artist-the same anonymous prodigy who had created their ambigrammatic symbol 'Illuminati'—and they commissioned him to carve four sculptures.†   (source)
  • That's been put on him, for the trial, even though they gave up wearing those years ago, when the sect wars first began; cassocks made them too conspicuous.†   (source)
  • One of the boys sharing the compartment, who had shown no interest at all in Lily or Snape until that point, looked around at the word, and Harry, whose attention had been focused entirely on the two beside the window, saw his father: slight, black-haired like Snape, but with that indefinable air of having been well-cared-for, even adored, that Snape so conspicuously lacked.†   (source)
  • The town is too small and he is too conspicuous, his position too precarious, the Governor's wife too pious, the enemies of Reform too ubiquitous.†   (source)
  • Professor Grubbly-Plank was chatting to Professor Sinistra, the Astronomy teacher, and Hagrid was once again conspicuous only by his absence.†   (source)
  • Her conspicuous well-being made it easy for me to be happy with her in the moment and leave the future for tomorrow.†   (source)
  • Because I'd earned my living as a carpenter for eight years before becoming a writer-and because the tax bracket we shared set us conspicuously apart from the other clients-I already felt comfortable around Doug in a way that I didn't with the others.†   (source)
  • I put the knife away—the invading Dauntless weren't carrying them, and I don't want to be conspicuous.†   (source)
  • Prakash hated bringing a conspicuous electronic item like a VCR home because burglars were likely to be tempted.†   (source)
  • Peter is second, but when I look at the time listed by his name, I realize that the margin between us is conspicuously wide.†   (source)
  • their entrance into Diagon Alley could hardly have been more conspicuous; for a moment Harry wondered whether it might not be better to leave now and try to think of a different plan.†   (source)
  • Right under the signpost was a tinker with a pair of donkeys, one of them loaded so high with bags and bundles that it looked ready to tip over, the other conspicuously unburdened.†   (source)
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