Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: obscured
IPA transcription: [əbskj'ʊɹd]
Usage examples
  • After lunch the land began to be obscured.
  • The light in the passage was obscured for a moment, and my aunt came out.
  • It was quite dark, the sun being obscured by ashes and fine volcanic dust.
  • The moon was now quite obscured, and I was under no apprehension of discovery.
  • The moon was obscured by thick clouds, and neither of the two had the courage to descend to the kitchen.
  • There are many other unfounded ideas current among the rest of the Hellenes, even on matters of contemporary history, which have not been obscured by time.
  • The foliage is of the same peculiar gray-green color as that of the nut pine, and is worn about as loosely, so that the body of the tree is scarcely obscured by it.
  • To the east, some fifty feet away, stood a tub, obscured by pussy willows, and brimming with cool water furnished by a cedar trough which reached from the bubbling spring.
  • The starlit night was quickly obscured by the smoke of the general cannonade from both ships and forts; but the heavy batteries of the latter had little effect on the passing fleet.
  • This obscured, if it narrowed, the field of conjecture; and Darrow's gropings threw him back on the conclusion that he was probably reading too much significance into the moods of a lad he hardly knew, and who had been described to him as subject to sudden changes of humour.