Example Sentences

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The crisp, cold, unornamental lines of his buildings, their rectilinear counterpointing of wide-eyed windows and bare, blind walls, shocked nobody.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is utterly slovenly-looking, and unornamental, abounds in slouching bar-room-looking characters, and looks a place of low, mean lives.

From A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

In these days of the plain French Republic,—of its sober, unornamental, business government,—the contrast is vivid with the glitter and "go" of Louis Napoleon's régime.

From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Dix, Edwin Asa

They were distinctively characteristic of the unornamental, sternly pious, eminently honest, and sturdily useful race that produced them.

From Sabbath in Puritan New England by Earle, Alice Morse

Thus, with his head tied up, and secretly lamenting the unornamental figure he now presented to the eyes of his partner and charmer, Quimby resumed the game.

From Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes by Thayer, Ella Cheever