How to Use unexciting in a Sentence

unexciting

adjective
  • The two most unexciting people in the game to have in power win yet again.
    Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The biocrusts, which can take decades to form, may seem unexciting, but Reed pointed to signs of a frenzy of life on the soil.
    Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Even Mishra’s brilliance fails to rise above the unexciting writing of the film.
    Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
  • So something as unexciting as a shade structure scores big in my book.
    Mike Goldys, USA TODAY, 7 May 2022
  • From the front, Rita Ora’s plain black dress from the fast-fashion giant Primark looked unexciting.
    Elizabeth Paton, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • So, the result was a low turnout, unexciting, status quo election.
    Amy Chance, sacbee, 11 June 2018
  • That's it for Android 14, one of the smallest releases ever—and a very unexciting one for consumers.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 29 Oct. 2023
  • That means it has been designed to be as appealing as possible to the largest number of people; the result is a safe-if-unexciting time behind the wheel.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Your sense of values may have changed, making something that once seemed desirable now seem bland and unexciting.
    oregonlive, 30 Apr. 2020
  • Instead, Chicago brought a plethora of unexciting veterans to the South Side to help eat some innings or cover up some problem spots.
    SI.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Some people think of vanilla as too predictable or unexciting.
    Emily Reynolds Bergh, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • And the final design resembled an unexciting re-creation of a re-creation.
    Lonnie G. Bunch Iii, Smithsonian, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Quickly realized the London bridge is a very unexciting bridge.
    Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Arguably the game’s best route runner, and with two straight years of relative good health under his belt, Allen represents a safe, if somewhat unexciting, pick for steady production.
    Des Bieler, The Denver Post, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Without emotion, the interaction with art can feel bland and unexciting.
    David Lucatch, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2022
  • The General Assembly is supposed to be on April recess, but Shekarchi is following through on his pledge and holding a meeting with a rather unexciting agenda.
    Dan McGowan, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023
  • This benefit is the antidote to the predictable silent auctions or the unexciting musical performances from the local grade school choir (no offense, kids).
    Kasia Pilat, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
  • But without the ability to discern red, the zebra spider perhaps perceived that spot as a dimmer, boring shade of unexciting green, Morehouse says.
    National Geographic, 7 June 2017
  • Burnham is affable if unexciting as the one guy Cassie can, sort of, legitimately let into her life, and Molina socks over his brief part as a troubled figure from her past.
    Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2020
  • And the GHz slowdown inherent in Moore's law has led to an unexciting decision in this sector, largely decided for you by laptop vendors.
    Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The biggest-name performers — at least domestically — were mostly out of the way in the first couple hours, leaving a hodgepodge of VMA first-timers and unexciting return guests to fill out the many remaining minutes.
    Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Their journey starts innocently, on a rather unexciting and mismatched Tinder date in a Cleveland diner.
    Barbara Vandenburgh, azcentral, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Along with a solid but unexciting set of full-year results, this should stem, and potentially begin to unwind, the sector’s near-20% underperformance during the past 12 months.
    Charlie Devereux, Bloomberg.com, 12 May 2020
  • Outside of throwing away time with his dad for a very unexciting (and ultimately useless) advantage, Wendell continues to play this game well.
    Demetrio Teniente, Houston Chronicle, 16 May 2018
  • This strategy results in an unexciting roster, but one that usually finds a way to be competitive.
    Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2023
  • New York Times - Corporate climbers, meet the unexciting achievers who make better managers despite being boring.
    Fortune, 1 Mar. 2023
  • That is, until a few years ago, when a group of engineering students from a nearby university conducted experiments at the viewing site and claimed to have solved the mystery once and for all, in a fairly unexciting way.
    John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 4 Sep. 2016
  • Clubs and events have become too controlled and monitored, drug taking has become too dangerous and unexciting, music has become too stale and obvious.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Things were going in very frustrating fashion for the home side, and their fans, as proceedings played out in a very similar, unexciting fashion with the Hammers creating nothing in the way of opportunities on goal.
    SI.com, 4 Nov. 2017
  • Averaging 113 points and finding a good flow over the previous three games, Cleveland reverted back to its sloppy, unexciting offense from the opener in Orlando.
    Chris Fedor, cleveland, 2 Nov. 2019

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