How to Use unflashy in a Sentence

unflashy

adjective

• Mrs von der Leyen, a wonkish and unflashy type, cannot point to much of a mandate from the parliament.
  — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
• Their Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte is unflashy but assured.
  — Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 17 June 2022
• This shirt is a good candidate for a do-it-all, unflashy base layer.
  — Scott Douglas, Outside Online, 14 Aug. 2022
• The only cars still rarely seen are Subarus and Volvos — the unflashy favorites of the urbane upper middle class.
  — Todd C. Frankel, chicagotribune.com, 16 May 2018
• For something unflashy with a hint of charm, roam through this organic vineyard and smell the lilac gardens (if the season is right).
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• The unflashy murder mystery has remained more or less the same as everything changed around it.
  — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2021
• In his own unflashy way, Green by the end of the 1960s was doing a lot to explode the divisions that the recording industry had helped to establish in the landscape of black music.
  — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018
• Look no further than its flagship, Domaine DuPage, a French country ale that’s as unflashy as a flagship beer gets.
  — Josh Noel, chicagotribune.com, 20 Apr. 2022
• But the unflashy fare (a safe, small dinner menu of salads, flatbreads, paninis and different types of hummus) was pleasant enough on a recent evening.
  — Anna Caplan, star-telegram, 14 June 2018
• The vibe is unflashy — Oxfords, silk blouses with bows, dresses with labels from department stores that long predate eBay.
  — New York Times, 5 Nov. 2021
• Brie Larson as Stevenson's assistant is unflashy and strong.
  — NBC News, 30 Dec. 2019
• Brie Larson as Stevenson’s assistant is unflashy and strong.
  — Mark Kennedy, Detroit Free Press, 9 Jan. 2020
• The revelation here is Spencer, who easily makes the leap to country-soul diva with her lovely tone and impressive-but-unflashy runs that don’t try to mimic the original.
  — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2021
• Dosunmu is an unflashy, competitive lead guard who can make a positive impact on both ends of the floor without having to dominate the ball.
  — Jeremy Woo, SI.com, 24 June 2019
• What unites all of the above is the versatility and unflashy practicality each figure listed requires of their clothes.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 26 Nov. 2020
• What’s feeling fresh in sneaker spheres these days, however, is unflashy, earnestly functional shoes.
  — Rebecca Malinsky, WSJ, 23 Feb. 2022
• That's why Shah sees Horizon World's relatively unflashy, avatars-in-the-office demo as a useful example of what interacting in the metaverse could look like.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 13 June 2022
• Resolutely unflashy, the house now possesses an airy, tranquil feel.
  — Ellie Pithers, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2021
• Much like her performance in Minari, her voice is unflashy but emotionally precise.
  — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2021
• Although somber and unflashy in tone, the hearings have been characterized by something almost unheard of in this kind of congressional forum: briskness.
  — Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
• But the unflashy presentation also masked several key changes.
  — Mark Schilling, Variety, 30 Oct. 2021
• If confirmed, the first Washington chapter of Buttigieg’s political story will be at a vast agency long viewed as a solid, if unflashy, perch but which could provide an opportunity to make a lasting mark.
  — Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2020
• The hues of the production create a theatrical world unto itself, allowing the frolicsome choreography of Kelly Devine to move with unflashy freedom.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2021
• There’s an intuitive yet unflashy quality to his game on both sides of the ball that’s extremely appealing, and his size and developing handle profile nicely as an off-guard and secondary playmaker.
  — Michael Shapiro, SI.com, 20 June 2019
• Here, Everett’s turn is unflashy, with the production’s hushed naturalism — most conspicuous in the tone and casting — extending to her musical segments.
  — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2022
• This story really needed an unflashy, unflinching hand that connected all the various parts of a life into a coherent profile.
  — Mark Kennedy, Detroit Free Press, 12 Mar. 2021
• Long known as unflashy arbiters of budgets and boundaries, some city and suburban school boards are shedding their stodgy reputation and staking out ardent positions on political and social issues.
  — Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2018
• Frisell turns 70 this month, and at this point, innovation and exploration are so fundamental to his musical identity that even a small, unflashy band where everyone sings except him still beams with his sensibility.
  — New York Times, 10 Mar. 2021
• With the focus on online extremism and recruiting on social media platforms in recent years, these unflashy tactics have gone relatively unnoticed.
  — Time, 17 Mar. 2021
• The unforced, unflashy intimacy and immediacy of a production like this one is close to my heart, and no company in America supplies it more regularly and consistently.
  — Terry Teachout, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2018

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