How to Use unathletic in a Sentence

unathletic

adjective

• Some guys are too small, too wimpy, too old, too unathletic.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 5 Oct. 2019
• Instead of age, the issue is how unathletic the Heat have become.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 28 May 2021
• This unathletic 5-foot-6 inch guy isn’t going to be playing a lot of pro sports and never did.
  — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 8 May 2018
• Those of us who were unathletic kids have fond memories of badminton as our favorite unit in gym class.
  — Gabrielle Bruney, Esquire, 17 Sep. 2017
• New York’s position players are still too unathletic and range-challenged for my tastes, so where is the huge step forward?
  — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• Blough, at 6-foot, was too small and unathletic to get scholarship offers, even from smaller schools in his native Texas.
  — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 28 Nov. 2019
• The Giants’ right tackles did not become unathletic overnight.
  — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 2 Oct. 2017
• Some scouts wonder if Hayes is too slow and unathletic to be much more than a serviceable rotation player.
  — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 2 Oct. 2020
• Nonetheless, early drafters have been too eager to draft a somewhat unathletic rookie whose workload is far from assured.
  — Pat Fitzmaurice, SI.com, 2 Aug. 2017
• Even with my unathletic routine, the Exercise Dress made for an incredible addition to my routine.
  — Halie Lesavage, Glamour, 27 June 2018
• Any unathletic person from an athletic family has spent a lot of time underneath bleachers wondering why they were born.
  — Sarah Miller, The New Yorker, 7 July 2021
• Frontal plan movement helps build and maintain your overall athleticism, and athletic runners are less injury prone than unathletic runners.
  — Jay Johnson, Outside Online, 16 Feb. 2021
• Slender and unathletic, Raheel had always seemed most content designing video games on his computer.
  — Janet Reitman, New York Times, 6 July 2017
• At a shirts-and-skins game of gladiator, while another character laments the cruelty of forcing all the unathletic students to be skins, Rowley is off to the side, playfully manipulating his fat folds.
  — Julian Towers, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2022
• Why would a non-running, unathletic, nacho-loving lad like myself be remotely interested in running 10 miles?
  — Brandon T. Harden, Philly.com, 1 Feb. 2018
• That an 11 seed from the Missouri Valley Conference with players deemed too small, too slow, too unathletic, too something by college basketball’s big brothers can march through March, making one last-second shot after another.
  — Mark Zeigler, sandiegouniontribune.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• Without Garrett or Vernon, Arizona also knew Cleveland was unathletic at defensive end and exploited it.
  — cleveland, 17 Jan. 2020
• What impressionable, heterosexual, unathletic adolescent boy would not want a piece of that action?
  — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2018
• Interviewed before Saban’s hip injury and subsequent replacement surgery, McKinney said Saban never looks unathletic jogging around the practice field.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 6 Aug. 2019
• Complicating matters, the stereotype that Asian Americans are unathletic is reflected in statistics.
  — Washington Post, 22 June 2021
• European Christians considered Jews effeminate owing to their circumcisions, deeming them a studious, unathletic, hemorrhoidal people unable to gallop through Palestine bedecked in armor and spearing unbelievers.
  — Gary Shteyngart, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 9 Aug 2024