Example Sentences

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Seattle Rep’s production of “I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter” features Isaac Gómez’s stage version of Erika L. Sánchez’s young-adult novel, an adaptation that can feel unproductively beholden to the incident-packed novelistic structure.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 24, 2023

And, unlike the fade-outs that punctuate the movie like chapter breaks, they unproductively disrupt the flow.

From New York Times • May 12, 2022

She told me that like most movements, a lot of time in recovery advocacy is spent, unproductively, fighting one another.

From Slate • Oct. 29, 2017

It’s a broad brush, one that unfairly and unproductively stigmatizes people who have served their time and peacefully waited five additional years as lifetime “defendants.”

From Washington Times • Mar. 1, 2017

He endeavored to trap and nourish the impression in order to predict, and perhaps even control, what incident would occur next, but the afflatus melted away unproductively, as he had known beforehand it would.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller