How to Use nondescript in a Sentence

nondescript

adjective
  • I work in one of the nondescript office buildings downtown.
  • Their performance was disappointingly nondescript.
  • The door of a nondescript van slid open and a head popped out.
    Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Events play out in an open space, out back of the nondescript home.
    Christopher Smith, Orange County Register, 30 Apr. 2024
  • At first glance, the theme of the picture might seem to be merely a snowy day in the outskirts of a nondescript town in the Lowlands.
    Keith Christiansen, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Perhaps the single most nondescript team in the game in 2021.
    Tony Blengino, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
  • This work of art framed the room and made a tiny, nondescript space into a jewel box!
    Elizabeth Pash, House Beautiful, 28 Apr. 2021
  • The cell, known as Talon Anvil, worked out of nondescript offices in Iraq and Syria.
    Grayson Quay, The Week, 12 Dec. 2021
  • By the end, Lucia, her nondescript Rust Belt town and the audience were all in pieces.
    Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The foundry is in a nondescript brick building alongside a busy road about four miles from PNC Park.
    BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2022
  • But through the nondescript doors is a lounge with booth, cocktail and bar seating.
    Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Adding to this sense of mystery is the moth’s tiny size and nondescript appearance.
    Rina Diane Caballar, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Putin didn’t like the fact that airplanes can be tracked, preferring the stealth of a nondescript train car, Karakulov said.
    Erika Kinetz, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The rooftop of a nondescript office block is the setting for this restaurant belonging to the founders of Dsquared2.
    Julia Buckley, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2021
  • The Colts drafted a lot of nondescript defensive backs in the second round.
    Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Apr. 2022
  • What this team needs is not a nondescript furball in a Christmas-tree sweater.
    Star Tribune, 29 May 2021
  • The home of Judge Judy and Mad Men reruns is saddled with a nondescript, uninspired bore of an acronymic name.
    Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Our talk was in a nondescript room — a streak of purple on the side of Molina’s hair was by far the most colorful thing there.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
  • In spite of the takedowns, a vast archive of Crimo’s videos still remained available on a nondescript Blogspot as of press time.
    Kat Bouza, Rolling Stone, 5 July 2022
  • The group soon stumbles into a nondescript room where a board game is propped, as if it’s been waiting just for them.
    WIRED, 16 June 2023
  • The nondescript one-story warehouse sits just off a busy street south of downtown.
    Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
  • For the most part, the charger is a nondescript surge-protector-style charging block.
    WIRED, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Those who make their way to the nondescript building open a door, walk down a hall and step into a small, windowless room.
    Thallman, oregonlive, 25 Apr. 2023
  • As the runners came around the final turn, a nondescript miler named Fermin Cacho was in the lead.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 July 2021
  • On the fifth floor of a nondescript building in SoHo, Pharrell Williams opened up his archives.
    André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2022
  • There’s no sign outside the nondescript building at 5505 First Ave.
    Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The newest restaurant at the resort is called Fin and Feather, a coy a turn on surf and turf, and the room has the nondescript look of most hotel dining rooms.
    John Mariani, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Sennott and Edebiri play best friends PJ and Josie, high schoolers in a nondescript town in a not-so-distant past.
    Elizabeth Peng, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2023
  • In the spring of 2023, chef Yusuke Yamamoto set up a namesake eight-seat omakase in a nondescript second floor space above Two Rodeo.
    Brad Japhe, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Its main office is here on the third floor of a nondescript building on Møllergata street.
    Jackie Mader, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Oct. 2024

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