Example Sentences

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As you shelter in place, unglamorously, you could do worse than pull a wig down from the shelf and sing along.

From New York Times • May 14, 2020

Some what unglamorously though, it took place in a sports hall in Manchester.

From BBC • Aug. 3, 2018

What if the real way forward weren’t a great leap but grinding, tedious, unglamorously incremental change—what George Eliot called “meliorism”?

From The New Yorker • Sep. 26, 2016

It means working unglamorously, off the books, and making sure that photographs of your new self stay off the internet.

From Slate • Sep. 9, 2016

“Rather, and rather unglamorously, the commissioner’s decision was finalized with an email.”

From New York Times • May 27, 2015