5 sentences with 'conspicuous'
Example sentences and phrases with the word conspicuous and other words derived from it.
• « Dyson, who has lived for 25 years in a small apartment in a walk-up building in New York City, is not much affected by conspicuous consumerism. »
• « One result of the prosperity generated by Italian mercantile success was the emergence of a conspicuous consumer culture. »
• « Even if the lifts fail and the air-conditioning system is conspicuous by its absence, there is one thing a traveller will invariably find in a hotel: a temperamental, if not hostile, shower, the operation of which requires an engineering degree. »
• « It is said, for example, that during a bullfight held in the Plaza Mayor in Madrid to celebrate the birthday of King Philip IV, one of the participants in the spectacle, the Count of Villamediana - a conspicuous and declared lover of the Queen - had the good fortune and skill to lunge a bull with extreme courage and brilliance, which made the Queen exclaim: "How well the Count stings! »