Example Sentences

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Connick unpoetically told the disappointed contestants in Room 2, who’d been told they would not continue in the competition.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2016

Just to make it look like a foursome, Stacy also invited Poetess Susan Grieve, who was unpoetically cold and prim.

From Time Magazine Archive

But practically and unpoetically, perhaps - how the young folk mount upon all our little achievements in Church matters, and think them nearly as old-fashioned and despicable as we did pews and black gowns! 

From Modern Broods by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

Me, I know that a woman needs a man just the same as a man needs a woman—and just as darned unpoetically.

From The Job An American Novel by Lewis, Sinclair

He was unpoetically rich––he even trafficked in money.

From A Singer from the Sea by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston