Sample Sentences for
oblivious
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  • She seemed oblivious to me sitting there.  (source)
  • Unfortunately, that wasn't the case—the driver was as oblivious to Dana's bad behavior as ever.  (source)
  • He was sitting in one of his office chairs, and he was reading, oblivious of the nightbugs dancing over his head.  (source)
    oblivious = unaware
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  • I wanted to be all alone in an attic like Skellig, with just the owls and the moonlight and an oblivious heart.  (source)
    oblivious = unaware
  • "And the older he gets, the worse he gets," she went on obliviously.†  (source)
  • It is the obliviousness of our children that saves us.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • She is pushing the gnomes away from her, terrified, now oblivious of my presence.  (source)
    oblivious = unaware of
  • Around us, dancers spin on obliviously.†  (source)
  • But if you ask me whether obliviousness would have been better for me, then I'd be a liar if I answered 'yes' or even 'maybe,' because the facts are against it.†  (source)
  • in front of the cigar store the Cherokee wooden Indian stood ... oblivious to Catholic or Baptist bells,  (source)
  • The vehicle had entered the market early that morning and had remained there undetected throughout the day as thousands of shoppers strolled obliviously past through the pale spring sunshine.†  (source)
  • The pain she experienced from the almost absolute obliviousness to her existence that was shown by the pair of them became at times half dissipated by her sense of its humourousness.†  (source)
  • She had her head down, resting against the rail of the bed, and her shoulders shook as she wept, with Grandma Halley sleeping on, oblivious.  (source)
    oblivious = unaware of what was going on
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