Example sentences for: unassuming

How can you use “unassuming” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Never close to this unassuming homemaker, Ellen returns reluctantly, at the behest of her father-mentor, an imposing professor of literature at a small, middling college who maintains that he's too busy to tend to his wife.

  • Manfred and Brigitte Voigt, unassuming store owners who had never paid any attention to the chain, were approached by McDonald's in 1990 and asked to open a pioneering restaurant in East Germany.

  • Taniguchi, acclaimed for his sleek Tokyo buildings, plans to use unassuming materials--glass, aluminum, and black slate--which critics say won't distract from nearby masterpieces by Cesar Pelli and Philip Johnson.

  • Still, there are lovely agricultural landscapes with ancient stone fincas (farmhouses), terraced olive groves, farmers who still plough with horses, leisurely back roads, and unassuming old towns.

  • Directed by George Miller, the movie is in a different league from its unassuming predecessor.


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