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

There was not a breath of wind “to swear by,” as Jack Scott unpoetically put it, so the long rolling swell was as smooth as glass.

From In the Land of the Great Snow Bear A Tale of Love and Heroism by Stables, Gordon

And for adequacy of meaning, not unpoetically expressed, they are almost supreme.

From Matthew Arnold by Saintsbury, George

His face, like certain tropical portions of the globe, was fissured, here and there, with small extinct volcanoes, defined by flat and greenish patches which Fourchon called, not unpoetically, the "flowers of wine."

From Sons of the Soil by Balzac, Honoré de