How to Use unglamorous in a Sentence

unglamorous

adjective
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  • Some players don’t mind the unglamorous parts of the game.
    — Christian Clark, NOLA.com, 24 Nov. 2020
  • And the same holds in the unglamorous terrain of our daily dealings.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2023
  • This was the most unglamorous part of this majestic opera house.
    — Essence, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The work was unglamorous but paid the mortgage and sometimes the college tuition bill.
    — John Schmid, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Thanks to the Party operatives who do the unglamorous work, day in and day out.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2020
  • But as the high-fliers deflated, it’s been the unglamorous, slow-but-steady stalwarts of the Midwest that have been notching the best record.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Well, that gets at the fact that this is, again, such a critical function that the Six Triple Eight had, but also an unglamorous one.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
  • There was a distinctly unglamorous side, in fact, to Fleming’s Bond.
    — Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 7 Oct. 2021
  • But the need is still for unglamorous negotiating, and that heart still beats, too.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Because the business is perceived as unglamorous, the stock sells for only nine times earnings.
    — John Dorfman, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • That her neat tuxedo jacket now comes with a pale, unglamorous splash of vomit on its collar still does not negate her poise.
    — Philippa Snow, The New Republic, 25 Jan. 2021
  • On a Friday night in late May, a crowd packed Knucklehead, a dive-y bar on an unglamorous block in Hollywood.
    — Eric Ducker, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Most of the things that a good pot or Dutch oven does well are somewhat unglamorous and also nearly impossible to mess up.
    — Bon Appétit, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Instead of continuing to gorge on the names that have thrived, this is the moment for embracing the overlooked and unglamorous.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Their lives are about attention to unglamorous details, not bravado and myth.
    — Jose A. Del Real, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2022
  • An unpaid and unglamorous nighttime shift represented a crack in the door.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Lacrosse is a game of very specific roles, and Barnwell, 6 feet, and 175 pounds, wiry and fast, takes on an unglamorous task and has been teaching it to the young players who will return.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 28 May 2022
  • Oh’s character has been rewarded for her years of scrambling with the unglamorous task of digging them out.
    — Vogue, 29 Oct. 2021
  • The work is unglamorous, involving long hours and a lot of sitting around, but Hueter and others hope even a blink-and-you-miss-it moment on screen might lead to bigger things.
    — Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2022
  • But as has often been true in the last few years, the tale is different for the unglamorous tech companies that are running circles around their cool peers.
    — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Behind the scenes, logistics expenses have jumped even more sharply than prices for foodstuffs, along with the costs of unglamorous items that few gave much thought to a few years ago.
    — New York Times, 27 Oct. 2021
  • But British doctors and nurses now face an unglamorous slog this winter that will be repeated in countries across the world.
    — NBC News, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Despite the bill’s unglamorous death in the Senate, its passage in the House is a major step forward for low-income families.
    — Alexia Fernández Campbell, Vox, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Scales has worked all his life, mostly in unglamorous positions at retail stores.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2022
  • No one wants bears in their backyard, but no one wants to invest in institutions doing the unglamorous work to keep them out either.
    — Patrick Blanchfield, The New Republic, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Clearing leaves around your property is an unglamorous part of home ownership and a downside of fall.
    — Brandon Russell, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2023
  • All of this is juxtaposed with the sumptuous but unglamorous day-to-day life of Queen Alicent (Emily Carey).
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 12 Sep. 2022
  • This was unglamorous, if not quite ordinary, road building.
    — Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Both Poirot and Marple are unglamorous, unmarried and without children.
    — Molly Young, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2022
  • This is, yes, the story of Elvis’ life, from impoverished and troubled birth to premature, unglamorous death.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2022

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