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• After spending years in obscurity, the band finally rocketed last week.From the entry rocket
• The truth behind their weekend retreat was shrouded in obscurity.From the entry shroud
• Two terms have risen quickly from obscurity into common campus parlance.2015 September, Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt, “The Coddling of the American Mind”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 04 Apr…. From the entry microaggression
• Things such as security through obscurity become common practices that usually have damaging results.2008, Shon Harris, CISSP All-in-One Exam Guide. From the entry security through obscurity
• Within the midst of its linguistic obscurities, Joyce embeds a few readily recognizable words.1994, Paul J. Griffiths, On Being Buddha: The Classical Doctrine of Buddhahood, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, pages 116–117. From the entry omnilinguality
• Then came the hybrid “cafeteria,” a word whose origin seems lost in obscurity.[1921 October 13, Toddles [pseudonym], “Our Dictionaries Change With Each Edition”, in San Francisco Chronicle, volume CXIX, number 92…. From the entry doughnuteria
• Such terrors as these were unguessed by me in the days of my obscurity.1914, Upton Sinclair, Sylvia's Marriage. From the entry uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
• McCarthy wrote for many years in relative obscurity and privation.2023 June 13, Dwight Garner, “Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry privation
• Yet Wilkinsonians (or the Universal Friends, as they dubbed themselves), despite their obscurity, provide a crucial case study.2017, Adam Jortner, Blood from the Sky: Miracles and Politics in the Early American Republic, University of Virginia Press, →ISBN. From the entry Wilkinsonian
• Long a crate-digger’s grail and never before available on CD, this is one obscurity that really lives up to the hype.2008, Signal to Noise: The Journal of Improvised and Experimental Music, South Hero, Vt.: Pete Gershon, →OCLC, page 103. From the entry cratedigger
• The store has its own music label — compilations of fashiony dance bands, French-Arabic tunes and other obscurities.2007 September 6, Mike Albo, “The Department of Just Right”, in New York Times. From the entry fashiony
• There were worse things than postfame obscurity, of course.2004, Paul Buhle, From the Lower East Side to Hollywood, page 181. From the entry postfame
• Ockham was critical of so many of his fellows for sicklying over theology with the obscurities of philosophy.2000, Ninian Smart, chapter 9, in World Philosophies, New York: Routledge, page 207. From the entry sickly
• This security through obscurity proved adequate for our prototype, but it was unacceptable for a turnin service in wide use.1990, W Cattey, The Evolution of turnin A Classroom Oriented File Exchange Service, USENIX Summer Conference. From the entry security through obscurity
• There are few pages which present no obscurity by traditional standards, and the novel reads as a long poem.1985, Pierre Spriet, “Structure and Meaning in Rudy Wiebe’s My Lovely Enemy”, in Robert Kroetsch, Reingard M[onika] Nischik, editors…. From the entry poeticity
• For in time, balti became an enduring British cultural entity all of its own—even as Jim Davidson and his fellow bullies lapsed into obscurity.2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 136. From the entry balti
• Shakshuka came out of total obscurity and, in a couple of decades, evolved into one of the symbols of the local food renaissance.2019, Einat Admony, Janna Gur, Shuk: From Market to Table, the Heart of Israeli Home Cooking, Artisan Books, →ISBN, page 54. From the entry shakshuka
• Along the way, over the last 17 years, the band’s stature has evolve from guildlike obscurity to best-kept secrecy to a sort of aw-shucks pre-eminence.2015 October 22, Nate Chinen, “The Time Jumpers, Country Swing Standard Bearers, Thrive in Nashville”, in New York Times. From the entry guildlike
• All this will put us in a position to better understand how Heaviside emerged from obscurity only to remain shrouded in enigma.2011, Ido Yavetz, From Obscurity to Enigma, page 184. From the entry enigma
• It was a bewildering theophany, since it was impossible to make out anything clearly in the stormy obscurity of thunder, lightning, smoke and wind.2009, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage, published 2010, page 47. From the entry theophany
• In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.1994, Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, →ISBN. From the entry speck
• The question makes the obscurities and withdrawals and unappealingness of modern art seem willful — which is another fact of the experience of that art.1967, W. H. Capitan, D. D. Merrill, Art, Mind, and Religion. From the entry unappealingness
• Under-punctuation (which is fashionable to-day) throws a great deal of the burden of interpretation on the reader, and sometimes leaves him with obscurities and ambiguities.1957, George Henry Vallins, “Points of Punctuation”, in Good English: How to Write It, London: Pan Books Ltd., page 112. From the entry under-punctuation
• The origin of the office is involved in great obscurity, and it has never been finally determined who the first and second Chancellors were.1911, Samuel Cowan, The Lord Chancellors of Scotland: From the Institution of the Office to the Treaty of Union, volume 1, W. & A. K.…. From the entry Lord Chancellor
• Accordingly, the columnist is a Blondin, treading a tightrope over Victoria Falls between obscurity and triviality, condescension and ostentation, and often falling into the foaming minestrone.2013, Philip Howard, “What is the correct term?”, in Modern Manners: The Essential Guide to Correct Behaviour and Etiquette, London: The…. From the entry blondin
• Consideration has been given to the differing needs of various kinds of crosswords, from concise to advanced cryptics, and nothing has been excluded simply on the grounds of obscurity.2012 September 7, Chambers, The Chambers Crossword Dictionary, 3rd edition, Hachette UK, →ISBN. From the entry advanced cryptic
• Setup plays can also be made when you do not have the needed letter but believe your opponent doesn't know the hook owing to its obscurity.2003, Andrew Fisher, David Webb, The Art of Scrabble, →ISBN, page 58. From the entry hook
• The Dynatones' approach is a three-way mix: familiar danceables from the likes of Junior Walker, Sam & Dave and the Rascals; scrupulously selected obscurities from such artists as Z.Z.1985, Billboard, volume 97, number 17. From the entry danceable
• During the past twenty years or so farmers in the Cedarberg region, from Citrusdal to Nieuwoudtville, have raised the rooibos tea industry from obscurity to minor boom.1967, Commercial Opinion, volume 45, Cape Town: Association of Chambers of Commerce of South Africa, →OCLC, page 19. From the entry rooibos
• The language used by most angara across the Heleus Cluster is Shelesh, a lingua franca that was commonly used in the early days of angaran spaceflight before fading into obscurity.2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Angara: Languages Codex entry. From the entry lingua franca
• The superbly designed hills already were taking on the blackness of coming night, several glaring in the ringlight as usual, those towards the horizon fading off into a jet obscurity.2016, Donald Suddaby, Prisoners of Saturn, →ISBN. From the entry ringlight
• To Pelagius, a personally irreproachable man according to what little view of him emerges from the shadows of personal obscurity, "sin" was not a basic mistwist in the human character.1987, Martin E. Marty, A Short History of Christianity, page 127. From the entry mistwist

Meaning of obscurity

1. noun Darkness; the absence of light.
2. noun The state of being unknown; a thing that is unknown.
3. noun The quality of being difficult to understand; a thing that is difficult to understand.

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Questions about obscurity in a sentence

How do you use obscurity in a sentence?

Obscurity is used as a noun. For example: “She was plucked from obscurity to star in a Broadway musical.”

What is a short sentence with obscurity?

“There were worse things than postfame obscurity, of course.”

What does obscurity mean?

Obscurity means darkness; the absence of light.