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How to use unassuming in a sentence

17 example sentences · adjective

Unassuming means modest and having no pretensions or ostentation. Example: “Various bridges were required, including a lofty one at Brantham, but money was saved by providing unassuming structures at the three intermediate stations.”

Examples of unassuming by meaning

adjectiveModest and having no pretensions or ostentation.

  • Various bridges were required, including a lofty one at Brantham, but money was saved by providing unassuming structures at the three intermediate stations.1946 September and October, “Centenary of the Ipswich-Colchester Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 307

More sentences with unassuming

  • Through his example and unassuming advice, he showed the US how to save itself.2026 May 2, Simon Tisdall, “The king went to Washington to save Britain’s bacon. He may also have shown the US how to save itself”, in The…. From the entry save someone's bacon
  • Robertson, born and raised in Alabama, is unassuming and generally unintimidating.2009 August 18, Tyler Kepner, “Yankees’ Robertson Emerges in Innings of Import”, in The New York Times. From the entry unintimidating
  • The Rapture single "House of Jealous Lovers" began as a generally unassuming garage-rock tune.2002, SPIN, volume 18, number 7, page 86. From the entry glamcore
  • He was quiet, unassuming, decidedly unflashy, nearly clergylike: the antithesis of the popular image of an agent.2000, Daniel Okrent, Nine Innings: The Anatomy of a Baseball Game. From the entry unflashy
  • Downtown, Charles Cros's Calabash, an upstairs, over-the-store eatery, offers excellent edibles in unassuming islandy surroundings.1971, Jeanne Harman, Harry E. Harman, Fielding's guide to the Caribbean plus the Bahamas, page 576. From the entry islandy
  • The Cherry Tree pub is an unassuming local.2026 July 25, Richard Partington, “I grew up near Andy Burnham. This is what shaped the UK’s new PM”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived…. From the entry Culcheth
  • Unassuming and unimposing, he was everyone's favorite houseguest.2015, Jed Rasula, Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century, Basic Books, page 229. From the entry Bilbo Baggins
  • How could so much warmth and unassuming gentleness be subtracted from the world by the simple misbeat of an organ?2011, Susan Donovan, Celeste Bradley, A Courtesan's Guide to Getting Your Man. From the entry misbeat
  • This unassuming south-Ponce tapas restaurant offers some of the most creative and sophisticated small plates in the metropolitan area.2007, Atlanta Magazine, volume 47, number 3, page 156. From the entry small plate
  • It is modest and unassuming and it celebrates the unnarrow life of a community dedicated to the quest for understanding.2001, Thomas W. Currie, Searching for Truth: Confessing Christ in an Uncertain World, page 27. From the entry unnarrow
  • Joyce draws upon Christ's parable of the Good Samaritan to make Bloom's unassuming act of comradeliness an instance of Agape.1972, Richard Ellmann, chapter VII, in Ulysses on the Liffey, Oxford University Press, page 146. From the entry comradeliness
  • Despite the screen makeup of frock coat and silk-topper in pictures he’s the most unassuming actor in Hollywood.1927 May 8, Orlando Morning Sentinel, volume XV, number 84, Orlando, Fla., section three, page eight. From the entry toppered
  • In a modest and unassuming way, not very rapidly, indeed, but steadily and reliably, it takes one about.1925, Aldous Huxley, Along the Road: Notes and Essays of a Tourist, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, part I (Travel in General), page 16. From the entry take
  • In the classroom—where David Lambert and I were two of sixteen students—Sebald was unassuming, almost shy, and asked that we call him Max.2013 March 22, Emily Temple, “'He Had No Set Assignments': Students' Recollections of Authors as Professors”, in The Atlantic. From the entry succès d'estime
  • The men and women who walk here are an unassuming lot, less the cell-phoned swells of the new Bryant Park than nine-to-fivers needing a smoke.1998 August 7, Thomas Mallon, “My Manhattan: Once-Famous Faces Watch Over a Park”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry nine-to-fiver
  • The Austin club is across the street from Tam Deli and Café, an unassuming Vietnamese restaurant and a convenient stop for prepractice banh mi, sandwiches served on French rolls.2007 September 2, Paula Disbrowe, “The Hot Table”, in New York Times. From the entry prepractice

Meaning of unassuming

  1. adjective Modest and having no pretensions or ostentation.

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Questions about unassuming in a sentence

How do you use unassuming in a sentence?
Unassuming is used as an adjective. For example: “Various bridges were required, including a lofty one at Brantham, but money was saved by providing unassuming structures at the three intermediate stations.”
What is a short sentence with unassuming?
“The Cherry Tree pub is an unassuming local.”
What does unassuming mean?
Unassuming means modest and having no pretensions or ostentation.

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