unassuming

Example Sentences

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It’s unassuming at first due to its sheer simplicity.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

It is currently a large, unassuming patch of farmland in East Ayrshire - but within years it could be one of the largest artificial intelligence data centres on Earth.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026

Outwardly unassuming and privately acerbic, Martin Gilmour teaches at a second-rate English university that, in his words, “tended to attract the stupid rich.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

Inside, Beshear was seated before an unlit fireplace, legs crossed, shirt collar unbuttoned, looking like the pleasantly unassuming Dad in a store-bought picture frame.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2026

But she tried anyway: ‘“And here begins the tale of mistletoe, that most unassuming and gentlest of plants.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack