Example Sentences

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While reviews were largely positive, The Quietus recoiled at the lack of heavy guitar anthems in a scathing screed that employed descriptors like "unintrusive", "clunking" and "by-numbers detritus".

From BBC • Oct. 10, 2025

But admittedly having the phone with me all the time, in its small unintrusive form, has allowed me to capture moments that don’t make anyone’s head turn.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 27, 2022

These animations tend to be unintrusive and relaxing—think of the Lofi Girl with the headphones on studying at her desk.

From The Verge • Jun. 8, 2022

The sequence of anticipation, wordplay and swordsmanship accelerates with balletic energy, with Wright’s unintrusive camera always on the move to capture the action as well as smaller gestures.

From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2022

Boldly now she applied that word to her condition, moved perhaps to be at last frank with herself by the frankness of her quite unintrusive companion.

From The Way of Ambition by Soper, J. H. Gardner