Example sentences for: unprepossessing

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

  • You might very easily walk right past the unprepossessing façade of the Metro Toronto Library (on Yonge one block north of Bloor), but the subtly interconnected areas of architect Raymond Moriyama’s striking interior may tempt you to give up your vacation and get down to some solid study.

  • A meaningless job, which anyone could have done, an undistinguished education, a home like any other in a crushingly ordinary neighborhood, a daily commute, no particular vices, and nothing to speak of in the line of contact sexuality--a white, Anglo-Saxon, middle-class life which, in external respects, was lived by innumerable unmarried sons answerable to family responsibilities, and marked by the lonely longings of a protracted virginity probably not all that unusual at the time, especially when, in Cornell's case, there were no riddling princesses to overcome his natural shyness and unprepossessing looks.

  • In a nearby side street, Santa Prassede is unprepossessing from the outside but enchanting in the intimacy of its interior.

  • The other church on the square, the bright white Igreja Misericórdia, features a terrific baroque façade but an unprepossessing interior.

  • The church itself is an unprepossessing reconstruction after a devastating fire of 1771, but the Brancacci Chapel with the great Masaccio frescoes miraculously survived intact.


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