unpolished
Example Sentences
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Spare guitar chords give way to a female voice that sounds unpolished but beautiful: “I want to lay with you/ In an open field/ Where yellow flowers are suns of Earth.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
On a conference call last April, an ad agency partner began presenting unpolished AI-generated images to make a point: Artificial intelligence wasn’t ready to take center stage in advertising.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
Fankam Mendjiadeu shot 52% from the field as a rookie, but at this stage of her career she’s offensively unpolished and hasn’t developed a reliable shot outside the paint.
From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2024
The unpolished, somewhat broken and exposed interior is a nontraditional setting purposely chosen for an equally nontraditional show.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2024
That is barely two years ago—and now here stands Territorial Kantorek, the spell quite broken, with bent knees, arms like pothooks, unpolished buttons and that ludicrous rig-out—an impossible soldier.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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