make conspicuous

Example Sentences

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In the 1970s and ’80s, home builders used it extensively in advertisements, perhaps to make conspicuous consumption seem patriotic.

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2017

As a result, going green has historically only been an option to those who can afford to make conspicuous displays of virtuous consumption—not the 1 percent, perhaps, but certainly the top 25 percent.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2015

And finally, some foreign diplomats try to make conspicuous their little royalties.

From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count

But only the mosses were sufficiently abundant to make conspicuous masses of color to relieve the dull slaty gray of the glacial mud and gravel.

From Travels in Alaska by Muir, John

His sentences are sometimes involved in the most hopeless way, and the efforts of grammar to untie the knot by any means known to it serve only to make conspicuous its own helplessness.

From James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters by Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford