Example Sentences

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The groom, apparently realizing his job wasn’t quite done, snatches the plate of cake from the bridesmaid and unromantically feeds his bride.

From Fox News • Dec. 11, 2019

Peter Gabriel even backed file-sharing software of his own, though the service, unromantically titled WebAudioNet, did not have much impact.

From The Guardian • Feb. 24, 2013

Grimes cares about what she unromantically calls "branding": she directs her own videos, styles herself and considers the visual imagery to be as important as the music.

From The Guardian • Dec. 13, 2012

In his novel “The Human Factor,” about a double agent, Greene sought, he said, to portray the British secret service unromantically, with “men going daily to their office to earn their pensions.”

From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2012

It might ripen into something better than it now was, or, unromantically, it might rot away in his pocket.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes