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

"He's an unpolished diamond, but one worth taking a punt on because the finer details and tactical understanding can be improved by Pep Guardiola. Forty million euros could look like peanuts in a decade's time."

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2025

That would be the goal, of course, but the best viral content bubbles up unpolished from the ether, slightly awkward and just novel enough to astound.

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2024

When Blanca saw the long unpolished wooden table where two rows of children were awaiting their portions with pleading eyes, she began to cry and wound up spending two days with a splitting headache.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende