Sample Sentences for
esoteric
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  • But then you have so many esoteric phrases.  (source)
    esoteric = private (understandable by only an enlightened inner circle)
  • Patriotism was a bit esoteric for me, too large-scale to see.  (source)
    esoteric = difficult to understand
  • ...some esoteric psychology journal.  (source)
    esoteric = confined to and understandable by only a few
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  • an elegant ... esoteric hothouse bloom  (source)
    esoteric = not known to many people
  • ...the ordeal of a professional social life, and he could never understand that esoteric phenomenon, the dinner-party--the painful entertainment of people whom one neither likes nor finds interesting.  (source)
    esoteric = understandable by only an enlightened inner circle
  • The courses seemed esoteric and disconnected from the race and poverty issues that had motivated me to consider the law in the first place.†  (source)
  • Then opening a seamless door in the wall, he disappeared into the cabinet where he kept his more expensive and esoteric spirits.†  (source)
  • She would chuckle, and Pari would humor her, but she sensed an edge to these jokes, an oblique sort of chiding, a suggestion that her knowledge had been judged esoteric and her pursuit of it frivolous.†  (source)
  • For his esoteric amusement he commanded the jolies filles (and we obliged) to line up in front of him in order of height.†  (source)
  • There were people perched all around her office, locked in a fierce and esoteric debate about which particular shade of pink would look best on an upcoming cover.†  (source)
  • The merchants valued him not less than we, his esoteric friends.†  (source)
  • There's nothing mysterious or esoteric about it.†  (source)
  • Obviously, the nomenclature is esoteric, but the physics is very advanced.†  (source)
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