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

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

Suffice to say that it received a James Beard America’s Classics award in 2010 for its dependable, unfancy wonderfulness.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 5, 2017

But because they were deliberately unfancy, they required a bit of a sales job.

From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2011