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

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

Bailey’s prose is unintrusive; yet under his strong light what remains is Roth’s life as it was lived and — almost — as it was felt.

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2021

Two dainty-looking, smaller-size lobster rolls come per order, the better for sharing; they’ve each got a pretty, unintrusive lettuce leaf lodged along one side, plus a little “X” of chive-lengths placed carefully on top.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 13, 2016

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