Example Sentences

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Then over the Pont de la Concorde, an unbeautiful bridge that holds great historical significance.

From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2022

Their sound was sometimes, I assume deliberately, harsh and unbeautiful.

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2021

The movie, though elegantly framed, favors the unbeautiful, and its landscapes are littered with rusty junk.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 26, 2018

If my face became deformed, I’d go from being unbeautiful to pitiable.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2016

It was a large, clumsy unbeautiful robot, smelling of machine-oil and destined for the projected mines on Mercury.—But it could speak and make sense.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov