abstruse

Example Sentences

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Mr. Barnes has long brought something exotic to English literature, but never anything so abstruse as to become alienating.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

I wasn’t expecting to write such a sentence about an abstract and some might even say abstruse Sondheim musical that has had only one short-lived Broadway revival.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2024

The particle is part of a concept called the Higgs mechanism that was added to the standard model in the 1970s to explain an abstruse but important puzzle.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 27, 2024

“I am well aware that speaking of a ‘Synod on Synodality’ may seem something abstruse, self-referential, excessively technical, and of little interest to the general public,” Pope Francis said in August.

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2023

The outfit was acceptable by any theological and geometrical standards, however abstruse, and suggested a rich inner life.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole