Obvious

//ˈɑb.vi.əs//

"Obvious" in a Sentence (15 examples)

I don't know how to demonstrate it, since it's too obvious!

Most scientific breakthroughs are nothing else than the discovery of the obvious.

If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intention of doing you good, you should run for your life.

It is obvious why you have a stomach-ache.

It was obvious that the driver had not been careful enough.

It was obvious to everyone that the marriage would sooner or later end in divorce.

It seemed obvious to me that the plan needed a few revisions.

This system has obvious defects.

"Act now!" he said, and in addition to his obvious meaning, he hinted that there were number of other important reasons why immediate action was needed.

What is reported in the paper is an obvious fact.

Show 5 more sentences

Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.

During the first year or so of British Railways, some of the simpler and more obvious inter-regional transfers of outlying sections were effected, such as those of the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway from the London Midland Region to the Eastern Region; the South Wales lines of the former L.M.S.R. to the Western Region; the Carlisle-Silloth branch (an L.N.E.R. legacy of a North British "border raid") to the London Midland, and so on.

One of the most obvious results of the B.R. Modernisation Plan has been the increasing use of diesel and electric traction; a less obvious by-product is the increase in track damage possible with the new forms of traction.

'Cause I threw you the obvious / to see what occurs behind / the eyes of a fallen angel / Eyes of a tragedy / Oh well, oh well / Apparently nothing / Apparently nothing at all

It is not obvious, to economists anyway, that cities should exist at all. Crowds of people mean congestion and costly land and labour. But there are also well-known advantages to bunching up. When transport costs are sufficiently high a firm can spend more money shipping goods to clusters of consumers than it saves on cheap land and labour.

Next best steps

Mini challenge

Unscramble this word: obvious