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

Slender, erect white wands make conspicuous advertisements in shady retreats at midsummer, when insect life is at its height and floral competition for insect favors at its fiercest.

From Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Blanchan, Neltje

But the caller had pulled from a pocket of his brown tweed coat a newspaper, folded in such a way as to make conspicuous a marked paragraph in the middle column.

From Where the Path Breaks by Créspigny, Charles de

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