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
Let every lawyer go into court with a mind resolved to make conspicuous to the light of day that which seems to him to be the truth.
From Orley Farm by Trollope, Anthony
They make conspicuous lines and clumps among shrubs; and this is especially the case with the huge flowers of the double class.
From The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition by Sutton and Sons
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
