How to Use unimaginative in a Sentence

unimaginative

adjective
  • Can this post of yours out there not be filled by an unimaginative average person of the type that come 12 to the dozen?
    Ze'ev Rosenkranz, Time, 19 June 2018
  • But for a film that wants to imagine the world inside smart phones, this story just feels so unimaginative and low-stakes.
    Katie Walsh, idahostatesman, 27 July 2017
  • But the unimaginative offense and a line that struggled to run-block conspired to make sure that so many of Stevenson’s yards were hard-earned.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
  • But for a film that wants to imagine the world inside smartphones, this story just feels so unimaginative and low-stakes.
    Katie Walsh, star-telegram, 27 July 2017
  • For a man who has sold $700 plates and $8 million sculptures, a video seems a little unimaginative.
    New York Times, 27 Dec. 2020
  • For a film that wants to imagine the world inside smartphones, this story just feels so unimaginative and low-stakes.
    Katie Walsh, The Seattle Times, 27 July 2017
  • An unimaginative coach will waste his speed and agility, as Steve Sarkisian did in 2017.
    Steven Ruiz, For The Win, 14 Mar. 2018
  • The barebones and rather unimaginative set by Vale seems built to be recycled.
    Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2021
  • The suit that at first glance looks staid and unimaginative is actually a three-piece pin-striped suit worn with a polka dot bow tie.
    Robin Givhan, chicagotribune.com, 4 Mar. 2018
  • In contrast to those works, Ferrari feels bizarrely dull and unimaginative in its approach to its visual world.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The fight has been a constant back-and-forth of trash talk between the two, at times juvenile, uncreative and unimaginative.
    Mike Dyce, SI.com, 6 July 2017
  • Encouraging the friend of your ex is both messy and unimaginative.
    Corey Mueller, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2017
  • Think brasseries are tacky, unimaginative tourist traps?
    Alec Lobrano, Bon Appetit, 9 Aug. 2017
  • Think brasseries are tacky, unimaginative tourist traps?
    Alec Lobrano, Bon Appetit, 9 Aug. 2017
  • Treating him as the literal butt of a gross-out beer-chugging gag just feels unimaginative.
    Justin Chang, latimes.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • If the latter is true, then getting something practical is always a safe bet, but a pair of socks or a gift card feels just a bit too unimaginative.
    Madeline Fass, Vogue, 24 May 2018
  • McKay pointed to receivers who were unimaginative with their routes and poor blocking but not Williams.
    Stephen Borelli, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2023
  • As a rule, unimaginative menus lead to sleepwalking cooks.
    Pete Wells, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2023
  • And Thompson remained on the sideline, a spectator to an oddly unimaginative offense that’s lost its punch over the past few weeks.
    Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Nov. 2021
  • There’s a kid named Podcast who has a podcast, and the little dude’s not even close to being the most unimaginative aspect of this frustrating retread.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2021
  • For a certain class of people along the Beltway, this is a perfectly fine, if unimaginative, message.
    Nick Martin, The New Republic, 2 June 2021
  • Bob Chapek was an unimaginative CEO at best—at a company that’s all about imagining.
    Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Stop posting unimaginative photos on social media, please — enough with the hot-tub shots and images of glossy beachside legs.
    New York Times, 4 Feb. 2021
  • Then there’s head coach Bill O’Brien’s unimaginative play-calling.
    Max Meyer, SI.com, 9 Aug. 2019
  • There’s a slew of dreadful, unimaginative songs and useless new characters that only weigh things down.
    Barry Levitt, Vulture, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Monotony Almost as unimaginative as a matching set of furniture is a scheme in which every piece conforms to one style, says Isabel Ladd.
    Nina Molina, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Last season, giveaway items, most of which were wearables, were widely panned as unimaginative.
    Dennis Lin, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Not only did the play-calling seem limited and unimaginative, but Murray didn’t let enough routes develop in front of him.
    Bob McManaman, azcentral, 2 Dec. 2019
  • But assuming a novel with a fictional celebrity in a relationship must be based on an existing celebrity—in this case, the internet has decided, Harry Styles—is unimaginative at best and sexist at worst.
    Robinne Lee, TIME, 2 May 2024
  • But Prigozhin also tapped into a wider dissatisfaction with Russia’s high command and its unimaginative strategy, wasteful tactics, and corrupt practices.
    Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 25 July 2023

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