Explore Obscured through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Obscured meaning
simple past and past participle of obscure
Using Obscured
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of obscure
- In the example corpus, obscured often appears in combinations such as: obscured by, was obscured, be obscured.
Context around Obscured
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 9 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Obscured
- In this selection, "obscured" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, significantly, entirely, partly, throughout, behind and reality stand out and add context to how "obscured" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and entirely obscured during june and and partly obscured behind several. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "obscured" sits close to words such as adherents, admirers and agitated, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with obscured
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It portrays a part of American history that is mostly ignored or obscured. (13 words)
Small details, like character names or floating hitpoint bars, seem blurry and obscured. (13 words)
His face was obscured, and identity concealed by a tan balaclava-like hood and dark sunglasses. (16 words)
He drove the vehicle while visibility was obscured by condensation on the windscreen, at excessive speed for the conditions, failed to maintain observations and failed to react to the presence of the project manager victim. (35 words)
These two West Coast hoopers have been relatively obscured by college hoops’ West Coast bias, but it’s apropos that these two old-timers settle this one last time on the Sweet 16 stage. (34 words)
In their tests, they were aiming for a 1.8% attenuation of the Sun’s heat—equal to about six days per year of “an obscured Sun,” according to the study. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
A study published during the early 1960s citation indicated that sunshine recording instruments remained significantly obscured throughout the year and entirely obscured during June.
Brandstein: I knew the surface just from the news at the time, but May’s story was obscured by this other narrative.
But just as important is what we don’t see in the headlines – and how those issues are obscured.
Council estimates also claim the views of the school's playground are already obscured by the existing school building.
Filmed from behind in almost complete darkness, and partly obscured behind several half empty bottles of soda, Charlie is shown vigorously masturbating to gay pornography.
He drove the vehicle while visibility was obscured by condensation on the windscreen, at excessive speed for the conditions, failed to maintain observations and failed to react to the presence of the project manager victim.
His face was obscured, and identity concealed by a tan balaclava-like hood and dark sunglasses.
Independent of faith or allegiance to a particular party, the facts speak for themselves and louder than any narrative, which is why they have been so deliberately obscured.
In order to justify its colonization of Palestine, Zionism has obscured reality by claiming that “Palestinian” and “Jews” are mutually exclusive terms.
In their tests, they were aiming for a 1.8% attenuation of the Sun’s heat—equal to about six days per year of “an obscured Sun,” according to the study.
It included several pictures of the alleged perpetrator: a slender Black man whose face was partially obscured by a baseball cap and a hoodie.
It portrays a part of American history that is mostly ignored or obscured.
It’s just as well they do my hair and make-up for me, or ‘peak Lou’ (my character name) would be obscured by bedhead and mascara-eye-bogies too.
Since their entrances became obscured or destroyed, many of the catacombs were abandoned until later years.
Small details, like character names or floating hitpoint bars, seem blurry and obscured.
The artist’s large clouded self-portraits reflect her ambiguous racial identity and obscured personal history.
The conservative groups Connors and Maichle were involved in tended to have cross connections and little transparency and money was often obscured by passing it from one group to another.
There is also an option to allow the project to see obscured locations when setting up an iNaturalist account.
These two West Coast hoopers have been relatively obscured by college hoops’ West Coast bias, but it’s apropos that these two old-timers settle this one last time on the Sweet 16 stage.
Unlike the other creatures, the player never actually sees the giant, since he's obscured by a boulder at the entrance to the cave.
Common combinations with obscured
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- obscured by 71×
- was obscured 21×
- be obscured 18×
- is obscured 14×
- obscured the 14×
- been obscured 9×
- are obscured 8×
- obscured and 7×
- often obscured 7×
- obscured in 7×