Example Sentences

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“I wanted unromantic, unpoetic, unsanitized visions of death. I wanted the naked, banal reality of this thing that will come to us all.”

From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2022

Atlanta and its suburbs are a surprisingly Whitmanesque experiment in pluralism, in which unpoetic concrete strip malls substitute for lyrical spears of summer grass.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2021

Catherine took on the coordinating task “using a very unpoetic spreadsheet”, and 70 or so poems quickly selected themselves.

From The Guardian • Jun. 30, 2018

When he came up with the jarringly unpoetic opening words to “People Make the World Go Round,’’ Creed hated them: “Trash men didn’t get my trash today/Oh why, because they want more pay.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 2018

I rode the bus out there every morning to teach grammar and literature to the oddly unpoetic children of this endeavor.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver