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Example sentences for "oblivious"

Lexicographically close words:
obliterates; obliterating; obliteration; obliterative; oblivion; obliviousness; oblong; oblongata; oblongis; oblongs
  1. Now, apparently oblivious to her immediate surroundings, her attitude unchanged, she watched every swerve of the throng as little by little, and unsteadily, it approached.

  2. Slowly, with a thought born in his head that made him oblivious of all else but the big black brute in the pen, Challoner approached the trap.

  3. Miki, hanging joyously to his victim, was oblivious of his danger until Pete's mother was almost upon him.

  4. Unfortunately for Neewa it was on this limb that Kawook had eaten his last meal, and he began working himself out on it, still apparently oblivious of the fact that the cub was on the same branch.

  5. Thirty feet away he was entirely oblivious of Miki, at least apparently so; and Miki hugged the ground closer, warned by the swiftly developing instinct within him that here was a creature it would be unwise to attack.

  6. Both were oblivious of the sounds of the revellers outside; the cries of men, the shouting of boys, the laughter of women, and the incessant barking of dogs.

  7. Oh, there's no danger of that," she replied demurely, oblivious of his humor.

  8. But he did come back just in time for dinner, through which he sat pretending that he was interested in Phyllis Van Vorst and casting gloomy looks in the direction of the oblivious Hermia.

  9. He paused a moment, his hand on the doorknob, looking over the head of the audience toward the entrance flap, where Cleofonte, oblivious of the tragedy which threatened the newer members of his family, still shouted hoarsely.

  10. Oblivious of the stress and storm of reality, he continues to be enraptured with education, with culture, with the opportunities offered by the large cities.

  11. Mr. Queed was oblivious to the little courtesy.

  12. That struck him to silence; he gave her a quick inquiring glance, and looked away at once; and Sharlee, for the moment entirely oblivious of the noise and the throng all about her, went on.

  13. Ogden was staring, oblivious to everything else, and with real cause, for the figure that had hesitated on the threshold was like no other that had ever drifted into Hogarty's place before.

  14. But if Hogarty was oblivious to everything but the game, his opponent was far from being in that much to be envied state.

  15. But now Billy seemed to be intently contemplating some object in the grass at his feet and to be oblivious of everything else.

  16. This was one of the forms of bayonet exercise, and both boys watched it absorbed, fascinated, oblivious of everything else in the great camp.

  17. Oblivious to the onslaught, Tom Blair strode over to the bunk.

  18. And not trusting herself to look back, oblivious of courtesy, she almost ran into the house.

  19. The third act opens on the morrow, in Hans Sachs's shop, where the cobbler is absorbed in reading and oblivious of the presence of his apprentice David, who comes sneaking in with a basket which he has just received from Magdalena.

  20. Still it would surely be a mistake to suppose,' he continued, perfectly oblivious now of my presence, 'that the vagaries of his son can really bring shame upon the head of the father.

  21. One secret of his success in life was his gift of yielding to one energy at a time, oblivious at the moment to aught that might distract or en- feeble the will.

  22. Don Jose pushed her from him with a heavy sob and hastily left the room, oblivious in the confusion of his faculties of the boon he conferred on the lovers.

  23. To Rezanov it was like a red rag to a bull; but the pro- fessor was oblivious at the moment of the tactless garment.

  24. The lady was seated, the admirable Pompey on her knee, so engaged in reading as to appear wholly oblivious that the gentleman was in her neighbourhood.

  25. Mr. Boult, oblivious of the fact that Bessie might also have liked to show herself, filled up the window.

  26. I shall buy him off, if I have to sell the clothes off my back," Mrs. Day said, oblivious of the fact that her wardrobe in the market might perhaps have fetched the sum of thirty shillings.

  27. Raby was profoundly oblivious of the interest he was exciting; he was wondering what had detained Margaret all these hours, and if she would have any news to bring him.

  28. For Protestantism was never altogether oblivious of its origin in revolt against unjust spiritual domination, while Catholicism has steadily maintained its conservative attitude of self-defense by repression.

  29. It was shown in the set lips, the stern brooding stare and his impatience with his motion-impeding leg; but to Billy it was shown most by his oblivious glances and the absence of all proper gratitude.

  30. He had stood on the corner and, oblivious of her presence, had poured out the vials of his wrath; he had cursed Eells for a swindler, and Lapham for his dog and Lynch for his yellow hound.

  31. But the two women, sitting in Clara's chamber, hand in hand, were oblivious to external things and noticed neither the hour nor the cessation of the music.

  32. So absorbed are they in each other that they are totally oblivious of all else in the world, and utterly unconscious of the attention they attract from the passers-by.

  33. He turned towards the seat where the clergyman and his wife were sitting, oblivious of the drama of reconciliation playing so close at hand.

  34. And there he remained, oblivious of the carnival preparations going on just outside his canopy.

  35. As for him, his self-despite was pain that rendered him oblivious of her real danger.

  36. Judging that Susannah was sufficiently guarded by his parents to be safe, he became almost oblivious of conversation which he despised.

  37. Oblivious of all around him, he looked up into the heavens, and it was apparent that his eyes were not beholding the material objects around.

  38. If Mrs. Carruth seemed resigned, Constance quite convulsed and Eleanor unduly rosy, Jean seemed oblivious of those facts.

  39. Again and again during the ensuing weeks had they toiled up the mountain, and each time had returned grimy, gratified and garrulous, heads nodding, hands gesticulating and oblivious of any other human being on top of the round world.

  40. Soon, however, he realized that the question was solving itself by the fact that Miss Winthrop was apparently oblivious to his presence.

  41. But she no longer did that, and had fallen back into the habit of eating her lunch quite oblivious of all the rest of the world.

  42. Not until the aside was abolished did it become possible for an actor to follow the modern rule of seeming totally oblivious of his audience.

  43. He performs, for this oblivious generation, the service of a great reminder.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oblivious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absent; absorbed; abstracted; airy; asleep; bemused; blank; blind; blocked; calm; careless; casual; catatonic; cold; comatose; converted; cursory; dead; deaf; disregardful; doped; dormant; dreaming; dreamy; drugged; easygoing; ecstatic; elsewhere; empty; engrossed; faraway; fatuous; flippant; forgetful; heedless; ignorant; inane; inconsiderate; indifferent; insensible; lax; lazy; lost; meditative; mindless; mooning; musing; napping; nirvanic; nodding; oblivious; offhand; out; passive; pensive; perfunctory; preoccupied; rapt; reckless; regardless; relaxed; repressed; senseless; sleeping; slumbering; stoned; suppressed; tactless; thoughtless; tranquil; transported; unaware; unconscious; undiplomatic; unfamiliar; unheedful; uninformed; uninstructed; unmindful; unoccupied; unprepared; unready; unreasoning; unthinking; unwitting; vacant; vacuous