How to Use unglamorous in a Sentence

unglamorous

adjective

• Some players don’t mind the unglamorous parts of the game.
  — Christian Clark, NOLA.com, 24 Nov. 2020
• And the same holds in the unglamorous terrain of our daily dealings.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2023
• This was the most unglamorous part of this majestic opera house.
  — Essence, 14 Nov. 2022
• The work was unglamorous but paid the mortgage and sometimes the college tuition bill.
  — John Schmid, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2021
• Thanks to the Party operatives who do the unglamorous work, day in and day out.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2020
• But as the high-fliers deflated, it’s been the unglamorous, slow-but-steady stalwarts of the Midwest that have been notching the best record.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2023
• Yes, Merkel may be the unglamorous follow-up to Macron's charm offensive, rolling up her sleeves to get work done.
  — Atika Shubert, CNN, 26 Apr. 2018
• Well, that gets at the fact that this is, again, such a critical function that the Six Triple Eight had, but also an unglamorous one.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
• There was a distinctly unglamorous side, in fact, to Fleming’s Bond.
  — Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 7 Oct. 2021
• But the need is still for unglamorous negotiating, and that heart still beats, too.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Dec. 2023
• On 21 May, China plans to launch a satellite with a vital but unglamorous mission.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 16 May 2018
• Being an auditor is a tough, unglamorous job, but someone has to do it.
  — Peter Jones, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2017
• Because the business is perceived as unglamorous, the stock sells for only nine times earnings.
  — John Dorfman, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
• That her neat tuxedo jacket now comes with a pale, unglamorous splash of vomit on its collar still does not negate her poise.
  — Philippa Snow, The New Republic, 25 Jan. 2021
• Limited food choices are not the only unglamorous part of the diet.
  — Kimberly Mugler, Rd, Ldn, Philly.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• On a Friday night in late May, a crowd packed Knucklehead, a dive-y bar on an unglamorous block in Hollywood.
  — Eric Ducker, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2023
• Most of the things that a good pot or Dutch oven does well are somewhat unglamorous and also nearly impossible to mess up.
  — Bon Appétit, 4 Nov. 2021
• Instead of continuing to gorge on the names that have thrived, this is the moment for embracing the overlooked and unglamorous.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2022
• The constellation of unglamorous mosquito bites on my legs is gone, and my skin looks more even, touchable, and smooth.
  — Kathleen Hou, The Cut, 1 Sep. 2017
• It’s made of decidedly unglamorous parts: a garbage can hat, a torso made out of a plastic beer pail, and pool-noodle arms.
  — Erin Berger, Outside Online, 20 Aug. 2014
• The rapper lifestyle has rarely sounded so unglamorous.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 19 Dec. 2023
• Their lives are about attention to unglamorous details, not bravado and myth.
  — Jose A. Del Real, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2022
• An unpaid and unglamorous nighttime shift represented a crack in the door.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• Lacrosse is a game of very specific roles, and Barnwell, 6 feet, and 175 pounds, wiry and fast, takes on an unglamorous task and has been teaching it to the young players who will return.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 28 May 2022
• Oh’s character has been rewarded for her years of scrambling with the unglamorous task of digging them out.
  — Vogue, 29 Oct. 2021
• The work is unglamorous, involving long hours and a lot of sitting around, but Hueter and others hope even a blink-and-you-miss-it moment on screen might lead to bigger things.
  — Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2022
• But as has often been true in the last few years, the tale is different for the unglamorous tech companies that are running circles around their cool peers.
  — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
• Behind the scenes, logistics expenses have jumped even more sharply than prices for foodstuffs, along with the costs of unglamorous items that few gave much thought to a few years ago.
  — New York Times, 27 Oct. 2021
• To find out, the researchers are resorting to the decidedly unglamorous task of pumping the animals' stomachs, then tagging them and quickly releasing them back in the water.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2024
• Women have been the backbone of the Democratic party, serving in critical leadership roles, fundraising, calling, canvassing and doing the unglamorous work to elect men for too long.
  — Danielle Veith, Baltimore Sun, 23 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024