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Example sentences for "inconspicuous"

Lexicographically close words:
inconsistencies; inconsistency; inconsistent; inconsistently; inconsolable; inconspicuously; inconstancy; inconstant; incontestable; incontestably
  1. That is inconspicuous dress of chela attached to service of lamaistic lama.

  2. Behind them, inconspicuous as a cat, ambled a small fat person who looked like a lawyer's tout.

  3. Pleochroic Haloes is a popular exposition of an inconspicuous but very beautiful phenomenon of the rocks.

  4. From the pocket of his sackcoat protruded the cuffs of tan gloves, and he wore an inconspicuous watch chain passed from pocket to pocket of his waistcoat.

  5. Now it is the chic thing to adapt oneself to the depressing conditions, to be frugal and inconspicuous like soldiers.

  6. Exceptional cases require exceptional explanations, and are scarcely good examples of the effect of a general tendency which in almost all other cases is so inconspicuous in its immediate effects.

  7. The conditions of the problem in these cases are such as to make them of the last importance in our inquiry into the utility of beauty; for in each case we are comparing a conspicuous and an inconspicuous flower in the very same plant.

  8. What motive would there be, then, for the inconspicuous flowers of the early geologic periods to convert themselves into the brilliant corollas of our day?

  9. Nor is it true to say that all anemophilous flowers are inconspicuous as compared with the green of their leaves.

  10. The conifers of the coal age were anemophilous then, and are anemophilous still; they show no symptom of becoming more conspicuous; the same is true of the oaks of the chalk period, and of all other inconspicuous plants.

  11. The difference between conspicuous and inconspicuous flowers appears a permanent one; and the page of geology gives no evidence in favour of the supposed change.

  12. It is not true to say that all self-fertilized plants have inconspicuous flowers.

  13. The ascent was alternately over steep rocky slopes, and broad shelf-like flats; many more plants grew here than I had expected, in inconspicuous scattered tufts.

  14. A forest tree in its maturity is covered with blossoms, some conspicuous, others inconspicuous to sight, but very conspicuous to smell.

  15. Resuming the march Nigel observed that the group of orchids was abundant, but a large proportion of the species had small inconspicuous flowers.

  16. Many of the former brilliant lines, too, had vanished, and been replaced by others, at first inconspicuous or absent.

  17. The shadows lengthen," replied Kai Lung, "but as the narrative in question is of an inconspicuous span I will raise no barrier against your flattering request, especially as it indicates an awakening taste hitherto unsuspected.

  18. Thus I shall doubtless be able to render you frequent service of an inconspicuous kind.

  19. And in this way their attention becomes bribed, so to speak, beforehand, and fails to notice the inconspicuous movements which would at once clear up the mystery.

  20. Juncaceae and a few Liliaceae possess an inconspicuous scarious perianth.

  21. When traveling with her mistress, the lady's maid should wear only very simple and inconspicuous clothes.

  22. He may also wear an inconspicuous pin in his tie and simple cuff-links; but a display of jewelry is not permissible.

  23. When traveling with his employer, the valet wears an inconspicuous morning suit of dark gray, brown or blue tweed in the conventional style.

  24. Of these the majority are but of accidental and ephemeral interest and of inconspicuous merit; and it is probable that Spenser himself lived to see the end of this over-direct school of discipleship.

  25. Nothing, for instance, has been said about the pastoral interludes which occupy a not inconspicuous place in the martial cantos both of the Orlando and the Gerusalemme.

  26. Later they purchased some inconspicuous "town-clothes" which they carried back to their room.

  27. A cab was waiting for him, and the driver seemed to know his destination, for he whipped up his horse and drove south toward the Mexican quarter, finally stopping at an inconspicuous house on a dingy side street that led toward the river.

  28. Only this time the sunlight was warm upon the world, the comfortable sounds of life's routine were borne through the windows, and the girl herself wore the inconspicuous blue serge of a thousand other girls afoot that morning.

  29. Outside that door there is a closed, inconspicuous carriage waiting for her.

  30. Hearne's lashings were inconspicuous to any one whom the car passed.

  31. Very little was known of him; he was inconspicuous to a degree, and it was usually assumed that he was something of a recluse, the result of a thwarted love affair in his youth.

  32. Jachin Fell touched the arm of Ansley and indicated an inconspicuous figure to one side of the entrance steps.

  33. The sporangia are inconspicuous until opening by fissure they display the yellow spores and capillitial threads.

  34. The former is in many cases inconspicuous and therefore unobserved; the latter generally receives more or less attention at the hands of the collector of fungi.

  35. This delicate, inconspicuous species is well defined by the characters given.

  36. There is a great difference in the floral beauty of varieties, some sorts having very inconspicuous flowers while others rank with our finest ornamentals when in bloom.

  37. He almost regretted the necessity of deceiving him, for the feat was so inconspicuous a one.

  38. It had put in a very inconspicuous appearance, and now popped back like a lizard into its hole.

  39. She belonged here, flying along inconspicuous and unmolested in light and darkness, just one of the hurrying and indifferent millions.

  40. The old Melrose house was a substantial, roomy, brownstone building in Madison Avenue, inconspicuous perhaps among several notoriously handsome homes, but irreproachably dignified none the less.

  41. Until then he had been an inconspicuous unit in the life of the community.

  42. This is a neat little shrub, usually about 4 feet high, with oblong-lanceolate leaves, and inconspicuous catkins.

  43. This has inconspicuous flowers, and is included here on account of the deliciously fragrant foliage, and which makes it a favourite with cultivators generally.

  44. This has rather inconspicuous flowers, and is of greatest value for the autumnal foliage tints.

  45. This has rather inconspicuous flowers, that are succeeded by whitish fruit, and is of greatest value for the ruddy tint of the young shoots.

  46. A small-growing tree, with trifoliolate, yellowish-green leaves placed on long footstalks, and inconspicuous greenish flowers.

  47. The leaves are ovate or elliptic, and green above, and the flowers of an inconspicuous yellow, succeeded by orange-red berries.

  48. An evergreen shrub, with oblong, light green leaves and terminal inconspicuous greenish flowers, surrounded by an involucre of four large, pinky-yellow bracts.

  49. The flowers are of no great account, being rather inconspicuous and paniculate.

  50. This is a handsome, large growing tree, with oblong deeply-crenated leaves, and small and inconspicuous flowers.

  51. It is of dwarf, compact growth, with small, sharply-pointed leaves, and inconspicuous flowers.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inconspicuous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.