Example Sentences

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Servile and even unceremonial forms of speech had temporarily disappeared.

From Salon • Jan. 11, 2014

Others were bravely trying to do the right thing by sitting down to a morning meal; but a number of these failed, some leaving quietly and deliberately, others rushing away in unceremonial haste.

From Story of Chester Lawrence by Anderson, Nephi

It was a new world; Jeanne the one connecting link between the present and that still half-shadowy past from which he had been cast by some unceremonial jest of Fate into a strange existence.

From Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts by Stellman, Louis J. (Louis John)

There was no ceremonial escort, so the people formed an unceremonial one.

From The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople by Hichens, Robert (Robert Smythe)

They were unpolished and unceremonial, and he liked them all the more for that.

From From Boyhood to Manhood Life of Benjamin Franklin by Thayer, William M. (William Makepeace)