How to Use unimposing in a Sentence

unimposing

adjective
  • Until the Ever Given showed up, the minarets of the unimposing mosques were the tallest structures around.
    BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2021
  • The house where Rauch and Loy have lived for the past twenty years is large but unimposing, situated on the southern outskirts of Leipzig.
    Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Leading off: the unimposing Austin Barnes, who is batting .238 in the postseason.
    Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Continuing to pick on Schwartzman’s unimposing serve, Anderson broke for the sixth time to put himself up a break in the third set, and served for the match at 5-4.
    Ben Rothenberg, New York Times, 4 June 2018
  • Dinwiddie is in a good spot to bounce back against an unimposing Hawks defense on Friday.
    Cory Hanley, SI.com, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Today, the mosque in northern Djibo province where the slight, unimposing man used to preach is closed, and the mud-brick walls of his village’s school are riddled with bullet holes.
    Simon Gongo, Bloomberg.com, 19 June 2017
  • With its relatively unimposing length of 7,072 yards, Pebble Beach isn’t a venue where Koepka’s power will set him apart.
    Brian Costa, WSJ, 15 June 2019
  • Creating smaller structures kept the main house at an unimposing 3,000 square feet and allowed guests to enjoy their own private retreat.
    Elle Decor Staff, ELLE Decor, 5 July 2012
  • Her presence has been described as gentle, quiet and unimposing.
    New York Times, 8 Dec. 2021
  • But after flashing early in camp, Willis has looked at times like just another big body against an unimposing second- and third-string interior line.
    Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Schmuck: Everybody knows the troubles the Ravens have had throughout the offseason and into training camp, but the defense still looks very good and that should be enough to take advantage of a largely unimposing home schedule.
    Baltimore Sun Staff, baltimoresun.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Henin, an unimposing Belgian with a sweeping one-handed backhand, was quite a stylistic contrast with Williams and was at her best on clay, eventually winning three French Opens.
    Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Flower and pre-roll sales make up more than 50% of their sales, but Yapp said the company saw edibles — food products that contain cannabis — flying off the shelves during the pandemic, as newbies sought an unimposing way to get high.
    oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2021
  • But the agency, which occupies two floors of an unimposing office building in Washington, has a small staff and an annual budget of only $32 million.
    Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Associated Press Steve Dalkowski, a left-handed pitcher with an unimposing physique, spent nine seasons in the minor leagues without getting into a major league game.
    Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2020
  • The computer itself is completely unimposing, looking like a metal tank suspended from the ceiling.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Whether Akers rebounds in 2019 depends in no small part on the production of the Seminoles' maligned offensive line and whether Taggart can cobble together solid quarterback play from an unimposing list of options.
    Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 11 June 2019
  • For example, in one sequence, a physically unimposing woman suddenly turns out to have amazing martial arts abilities, which is exactly the sort of setup that Stephen Chow staged in films like Shaolin Soccer with a high-octane wink.
    Noah Berlatsky, The Verge, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Griffin carried an otherwise unimposing Pistons team into the playoffs last season.
    Dana Gauruder, Detroit Free Press, 19 Dec. 2019
  • And the story of his fandom illustrates an important point about New York City's favorite super-powered wall-crawler: The appeal of the character long ago transcended its original iteration as a white, unimposing, orphaned teenager.
    Aaron Morrison, ajc, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Corrections department officials celebrated the donation in December by leading visitors on a tour of Jessup’s library, an unimposing, carpeted room with shelves that hold roughly 6,000 books.
    Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Harvey Karp, the pediatrician, parenting expert and inventor-slash-entrepreneur, cuts an unimposing figure.
    Ruth Margalit, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2018

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