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

It is a life of perpetual dissatisfaction, a life of thin and sugary highs followed by long and unenlightening lows.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2020

Sporting prosthetic teeth, a wig and a funny accent, Swinton pops up briefly as Christoph Waltz’s virtual therapist, Dr Shrink-Rom, in Terry Gilliam’s chaotic and frankly unenlightening fantasy parable.

From The Guardian • Jan. 16, 2020

We’ve gotten these in every year since 1992, and yet the data remain somewhat unenlightening.

From Slate • Nov. 14, 2018

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

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