Example Sentences

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Yet the makeup, at first glance, was by no means unstriking.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help.

From What Is Man? and Other Essays by Twain, Mark

Manly the face was, but, except when speaking in unconscious moments, dull and unstriking.

From The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him by Ford, Paul Leicester