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Example sentences for: understated

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

The portrait of Ellen is an understated valentine that colors the entire book with almost inadvertent charm.
"As literate and understated as one could expect" from Hollywood, says the Los Angeles Times ' Kenneth Turan.
Nicolas Cage's Frank Pierce saves Cy from a death as gruesome as the one De Niro's Travis Bickle visited on Sport, and when Frank does take a life (in the movie's best, most understated scene), it's an act of mercy.
The understated simplicity — and lack of human images — of Islamic design fades completely and is replaced with an ornate blaze of color within which human images in either paint, stone, or wood abound.
"The Gimelsteins, of Lawrence, will order tastefully understated invitations to their daughter's bat mitzvah."