Example Sentences

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We chose the 3-star White Elephant Home, where quiet, spacious but unfancy rooms within walking distance of a popular night market cost roughly $50 a night.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

Today, Nelson stands as one of the greatest songwriters we’ll ever know — a lyricist with a singular gift for unfancy profundity, and a singer who can turn time into a plaything.

From Washington Post • May 2, 2023

Chandler says his sides can be polarizing: potatoes whipped to a slurry, except for the odd chunk, with peppery housemade gravy; purposefully unfancy, gluey-style American-and-cheddar macaroni and cheese; collard greens that skew quite sweet.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 30, 2022

As I say so often in this No. 1 hits series, nowadays, syncopated singing is rapping, and Polo possesses a placid, unfancy but mellifluous singing voice.

From Slate • May 1, 2021

With a book by Susan DiLallo, a score by Danny Abosch, and lyrics by both, the musical, closing this weekend, humorously follows Nancy’s attempts to cope with a most unfancy role: that of a tree.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2013