Example Sentences

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For the Armani look itself, the document commits them to the "search for an essential, modern, elegant and unostentatious style with attention to detail and visibility".

From Reuters • Nov. 15, 2023

The funerals were unostentatious, unlike those of the elites in Egypt and Mesopotamia.

From BBC • Oct. 5, 2023

And what will cause it to be remembered is its intrinsic and inspiring spell of the goodness that is to be found in unostentatious and sincere people.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2023

Sadly, in recent years, this most unostentatious and proletarian of foods has been gentrified and made to dress up gaudily with superfluous additives such as honey, Nutella and cinnamon.

From The Guardian • Oct. 20, 2019

He works incessantly, is unostentatious, and when he appears among us all eyes follow him with outspoken blessings.’”

From Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields by Edmonds, S. Emma E.