nondescript

Example Sentences

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Far from the glamour of fashion weeks in Paris, Milan and London, a nondescript cashmere mill on Scotland's western coast that supplies luxury labels hopes local training programmes can attract new talent.

From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026

This, too, is predictable, but it’s always a rough watch, whether it’s Ilia Malinin’s tumbles in men’s figure skating, or Mikaela Shiffrin’s mysteriously nondescript slalom run in the team combined event.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026

Angel Paws Pet Cremation appeared to be a nondescript San Marcos business, where grieving clients brought in their dearly departed pets — until they stopped getting their calls returned, and the building began to smell.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

On a recent Thursday morning, five researchers and engineers at Ricursive scrunched before giant computer screens in a nondescript Palo Alto house, dissecting research papers and parsing through lines of code.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025

He was a shorthaired dog, gray with black and brown spots — to call him nondescript would be a kindness.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen