| 1. | Lye thus astonisht on th' oblivious Pool. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | And with some sweet oblivious antidot. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | Vronsky, standing beside Oblonsky, watched the carriages and the passengers, totally oblivious of his mother. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 4. | Marilla found Anne face downward on her bed, crying bitterly, quite oblivious of muddy boots on a clean counterpane. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 5. | Come hither bury thyself in a life which, to your now equally abhorred and abhorring, landed world, is more oblivious than death. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 6. | London, which had gone to bed on Sunday night oblivious and inert, was awakened, in the small hours of Monday morning, to a vivid sense of danger. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 7. | I tried to get him to talk of the incident, but he blandly asked me questions as to what I meant, and led me to believe that he was completely oblivious of the affair. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 8. | "No," he broke in, and unconsciously, oblivious of the awkward position into which he was putting his companion, he stopped abruptly, so that she had to stop short too. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 9. | He can talk on almost any subject--when he will--and knows pretty well what is going on in the world at an age when other boys are oblivious to everything but gymnasiums and girls. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |