Example Sentences

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An unenlightening spectacle last week saw Porter float above the fray, wearily raising her eyebrows over the squabbling among her competitors.

From Barron's • May 5, 2026

As it stands, “A Luminous Republic” reads too often like a middling civil servant’s report: underlined by good intentions and promising themes, but ultimately unenlightening.

From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2020

Oddly, though, he manages to write nearly 20 pages on attachment style and politicians with only a single — and singularly unenlightening — paragraph about our current president.

From Washington Post • Aug. 9, 2018

He gave me an unenlightening shrug and returned to leaning on his Land Rover.

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2018

Their intermittent sputtering to the right and left of us was unenlightening.

From "And they thought we wouldn't fight" by Gibbons, Floyd