Example Sentences

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She looks up at the image, admitting: “Look at me, I was a goddess. I had no idea. I thought I was fat, unfashionably curvy and unattractive.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2026

The initiative has unsurprisingly been opposed by the tobacco industry, but also by the government, which has maintained unfashionably friendly relationships with tobacco companies that have set up regional and even global headquarters in Switzerland.

From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2022

It came unfashionably late — the end of Day 4 — and from an unlikely source: the women’s discus throw.

From Fox News • Aug. 2, 2021

“It’s a contribution to an important cause and to another form of community,” she says, meaning the nerdy and unfashionably courteous Old Weather Forum, an online chat room that many volunteers speak of with affection.

From Reuters • Dec. 11, 2019

Lanniere evidently had serious intentions, for he came unfashionably early.

From An Original Belle by Roe, Edward Payson