Example sentences for: unglamorous

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

  • The women who rose to the top invented flamboyant personas to go with their step-by-step systems, but they came from distinctly unglamorous backgrounds.

  • The task of boiling down what the average American needs to know each week is fundamentally unglamorous.

  • They hail Natasha Richardson's unglamorous portrayal of Sally Bowles--an aging, seedy bisexual nightclub singer--as the "performance of the season" (Ben Brantley, the New York Times ). Dissenting, the Washington Post 's Lloyd Rose says Richardson "can't phrase a song."

  • In interviews around the government, official after official urged us to call attention to frustrations with the unglamorous "back office" side of government operations.

  • The Washington Post 's Tom Shales says the show, about an unglamorous firm whose lawyers take on lowlifes as clients and work in shabby offices, skillfully interweaves several plots into a single episode.


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