How to Use unexceptional in a Sentence

unexceptional

adjective

• As an actor he was unexceptional, but he had a beautiful singing voice.
• Much of it is fine, if unexceptional, and sees little more than a ride or two.
  — Outside Online, 15 Aug. 2014
• Soon after, there was a third, and a fourth, and the achievement became unexceptional.
  — Mark Harris, EW.com, 7 Jan. 2022
• The clips are paired with unexceptional small sculptures of the dancer engulfed in rippling bronze rather than gossamer robes.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2022
• But an inferior tee shot led to a bailout, an unexceptional chip and a two-putt par.
  — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2022
• Naysayers complain Reeves’ two out of nine wins in the Super Bowl is unexceptional.
  — Tara McClary Reeves, The Denver Post, 15 Oct. 2019
• From the surface, these 22 square miles of water are unexceptional.
  — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
• But the Rangers’ attempts to build from within over the last six losing seasons have been unexceptional, and that’s using the word in the most benign way possible.
  — Dallas News, 5 Jan. 2023
• Andy’s first thoughts were about Rich’s column from the day before, in which Rich wrote that the impeachment feels rather unhistoric and unexceptional.
  — Nr Staff, National Review, 20 Dec. 2019
• The running time is unexceptional in one sense, a few minutes over two hours, but notable in another.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2021
• These are solid if unexceptional songs that, shadowy synths aside, break no new ground for Ms. Swift, though the craft of her songwriting remains at a high level.
  — Mark Richardson, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2022
• The wreck was just one in a steady and unexceptional stream of crises in Oakland that night: harrowing, but low on the priority list for the city’s police officers.
  — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 May 2022
• Chapman’s unexceptional outing allowed Pete Alonso to come up to the plate and show off in a vintage fashion.
  — Deesha Thosar, courant.com, 3 Sep. 2020
• On a normal game day, the officials’ locker room is a small, unexceptional room on the other side of Sanford Stadium.
  — Ross Dellenger, SI.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• The results can be alarming, as weddings adjoin funerals and tantrums melt into firelit peace, but what the mixture yields is a kind of creed: a faith in the fullness of lives that might be deemed unexceptional.
  — By anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2019
• Will their parents be able to bring action against the school years and years later for not calling home over these common and unexceptional behaviors when one student out of dozens comes out years later?
  — Peter Greene, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• Compare that with the top 25 players in NFL history for receiving yardage, who were just as likely to play with unexceptional quarterbacks as hall of famers.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 27 Apr. 2020
• Cutting pollution could come down to an act as unexceptional as waiting until bedtime to charge the minivan.
  — Jaclyn Gallucci, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2018
• What goes up must come down—or, rather, what rides well doesn’t always handle well, and the Fit’s soft suspension leaves it dynamically unexceptional.
  — Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver, 19 Jan. 2018
• So is the impact of fiercely controlling fathers on unexceptional and needy sons, who seek to fill their gaping emotional voids with shiny objects.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2017
• Once the default uniform of the unexceptional American office man, this staple has done an about-face in recent years and reclaimed its full potential.
  — Gq Bespoke - Sponsor Content, GQ, 17 Oct. 2017
• Angelina was married to abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld, and the couple had two sons and a daughter; all three were acknowledged by their parents and aunt to be unexceptional.
  — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Apr. 2023
• They’re happily absorbed by the real-time whorls and eddies of their own largely unexceptional—which is not the same thing as boring—experiences.
  — Peter C. Baker, The New York Review of Books, 11 Mar. 2021
• This particular week, July 10 through 16, will turn out to be unexceptional by the dreary standards of what has become the region’s greatest health crisis.
  — Catherine Cusick, Longreads, 12 Sep. 2017
• Screens to the side of the stage displayed unexceptional images of nature — trembling leaves, gurgling water, a mosquito feasting on skin — that paled next to the richness with which Janacek renders those images in music.
  — Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2017
• But by then SPACs will have become commonplace and unexceptional, their sharp edges sanded by regulators and sober bankers.
  — Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 31 May 2021
• Expecting to see unexceptional posts from your friends makes users more generous with one another, and with themselves.
  — New York Times, 10 May 2022
• His greatest accomplishments have come from doing the unexceptional in some of the most exceptional ways.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• An athletic quarterback with unexceptional passing skills tries the other end of the equation, as a wide receiver.
  — Les Bowen, Philly.com, 7 June 2017
• The restaurant was unexceptional — plastic chairs, coarse tablecloths, low guttering candles — and perfect.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 10 Sep 2024