How to Use obscurity in a Sentence

obscurity

noun
  • He has been living in relative obscurity in a small town in the mountains.
  • In recent years, the tradition has emerged from obscurity.
  • After a promising first novel, she faded into obscurity.
  • Does that lead to a kind of obscurity?
    — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 12 May 2026
  • You got plucked from obscurity to do this project.
    — Chris Lee, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
  • That obscurity might be about to change.
    — Nikita Ostrovsky, Time, 15 Jan. 2026
  • With no tour or film on the horizon, the show was doomed to obscurity.
    — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2025
  • At the height of their fame, the band split up and fell into obscurity.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Once they had been shelved in the obscurity of a lawyer’s office.
    — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 4 Sep. 2020
  • The searchlight is so bright that there is no such thing, any more, as obscurity.
    — New York Times, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Maybe a higher price would help lift the best bottles out of obscurity?
    — Lettie Teague, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2018
  • The tool can bring a face out of obscurity in cases where there's a bright background.
    — PCMAG, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Ninety-four percent of the state would have some obscurity of the sun.
    — Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2023
  • There was no decade of burning cash to convince strangers to sign up, no slow climb out of obscurity.
    — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • My puzzles had less obscurity, but there were more playful and tricky clues.
    — Liz Maynes-Aminzade, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2023
  • For too long, your culture has been shrouded in obscurity, and even shame.
    — Kira Garcia, New Yorker, 17 June 2025
  • Nwogu’s journey from obscurity to prominence traced the same path as the team's.
    — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 13 June 2020
  • Mike, who has been half-pining for Daisy in obscurity this whole time, tries to kiss her.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 17 Feb. 2026
  • This obscurity is weighing on her heart.
    — David Searcy, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • By the end of the decade, most of the group's members had faded into obscurity.
    — NBC News, 21 July 2019
  • Yet part of Af Klint’s obscurity has to do with the artist herself.
    — Lance Esplund, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2018
  • Colorado spent most of the year in obscurity before a late-season surge.
    — Jake Shapiro, The Denver Post, 4 Nov. 2019
  • As years passed, the ball field where children learned the game faded into obscurity.
    — Ted Slowik, Daily Southtown, 7 June 2019
  • In the past decade, the grain has started to emerge from obscurity, thanks to our interest in all things gluten-free.
    — Maria Speck, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Over time, the risk is that Bitcoin would slide toward obscurity.
    — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Or would they be expected to lie low and fade into obscurity like their parents?
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Connell, who died in 2013, is in part to blame for his own obscurity.
    — Max Norman, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
  • In fact, 40 hours of video footage sat in a basement for decades until our guest helped lift it from obscurity.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Once one is blown out, in rehab, there’s a fresh little 17-year-old to pluck out of obscurity.
    — Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 8 June 2018
  • Those ideas would vault him from obscurity to the height of religious celebrity within the next few years.
    — Katherine Blunt, Houston Chronicle, 1 June 2018

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