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How to use obtrusive in a sentence

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Ashley's response was cut short by a loud, obtrusive cough from where Jimmy sat to my left.
So now you have a rather obtrusive opening on the ground floor with a view into an empty basement without stores or food outlets.
His performance skills are less obtrusive than those of his actorly predecessors simply because we are already familiar with the style.
On an aesthetic level, this film is special because it utilises a lot of modern devices successfully without feeling obtrusive or gimmicky.
Her artistry of story telling is welcome as it is thankfully free from any obtrusive stylistic aerobatics.
Commercial influence and the grip of wealthy patrons are obtrusive and obvious.
The courts have been inconsistent, often influenced by how obtrusive the display is and whether a genuine historic context is involved.
His actions were quickly followed and none of the officers noticed any longer the obtrusive wrongness of his presence.
Yet I was overwhelmed by the kindness of Laotian people, who were warm without being obtrusive, direct without being rude.
We may find that some religious augmentation of a school's dress code is not obtrusive, while others violently blare forth!
By its very nature, this commercial intrusion is designed to be obtrusive and dominant.
Though their presence was meant to be protective, it was essentially obtrusive, and in terms of it being necessary at all, tragic.
The more ambitious and well favoured tend to become obtrusive, and, eventually, inevitably, an embarrassment to their masters.
Here, the backgrounds are obtrusive and detract from the rest of the action.
It's also compact enough to tuck neatly into an entertainment center or tabletop without being too obtrusive.
The Colorama, once a welcome diversion, seemed by then vulgar and obtrusive.
Brash fashion, garish visuals and acceptably obtrusive sounds make for an attention grabbing set this evening at the Music Box.
New litter bins, cycle stands, additional on-street car parking bays and new, less obtrusive signs are also planned.
Despite denials by some that any such conflict exists, the culture war is an obtrusive fact.
In his case, and perhaps in yours as well, the direction isn't obtrusive in any way.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Just a cottage or two to remind one that there is a population, but not obtrusive.
They were in their way quite as splendid and obtrusive as Madame Corinne was in hers.
There was none of the obtrusive selfishness of an ordinary horse in his ways.
It mattered not that her presence there showed her to be vulgar, impertinent, and obtrusive.
He could not breathe until the abbe had freed him from his obtrusive society.
He, however, who is obtrusive with his eyes as a discerner, how can he ever see more of anything than its foreground!
He was not obtrusive, but was content to keep at heel, and to be permitted to admire.
There is firstly that obtrusive militarism from which we cannot for a moment escape.
But it is not the noisy, clamorous, obtrusive life of the city.
The hand that held the cap rested lightly on the little ivory-mounted piano of Elizabeth, with neither rustic restraint nor obtrusive vulgarity.
Jan solved the problem of the obtrusive new walls by using Invisible Green paint.
There was control over it, but the control was not obtrusive.
The wryneck is as retiring in disposition as the sparrow is obtrusive.
And then they both stared at me, and I, with an obtrusive show of artlessness on my countenance, stared at them, and plaited the right leg of my trousers with my right hand.
In spite of his obtrusive baldness, he gave the impression of youth.
Not the less, however, came this importunately obtrusive sense of change.
Brant already allows less obtrusive signs like sandwich boards, farm produce signs, and open house signs on road allowances under certain conditions.
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