Example Sentences

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And so I was headed to the suburbs, to the corridor along Highway 7, an unscenic but pulsing artery of high quality, delicious and inexpensive regional Chinese cuisine.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2016

Taco Bell’s fast-casual concept restaurant in Huntington Beach, California, is to exit from a remarkably unscenic stretch of Interstate 405 and take Main Street all the way to the Pacific Ocean. 

From Slate • Aug. 18, 2014

It may have seemed to some readers that it is the novelty, in poetry, of this homely unscenic scenery—this Lincolnshire quality—that accounts for Tennyson’s freshness of vision. 

From Hearts of Controversy by Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson

We took the three lakes at easy speed, persuading ourselves that scenes fog would not let us see were unscenic.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 by Various