How to Use unimpressive in a Sentence

unimpressive

adjective
  • Well, the car has a range of a rather unimpressive 110 miles.
    Christian De Looper, BGR, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Is there such a thing as the most unimpressive grain of sand?
    Randall Roberts, latimes.com, 11 June 2019
  • The Cats won the same number of games but in a very unimpressive manner.
    Jay Brinker, Cincinnati.com, 15 Dec. 2017
  • From the looks of the frown on Dua’s face, it was also had a wildly unimpressive taste.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 12 Dec. 2023
  • My irons are good, my drive is straight but unimpressive in length.
    Tom Roddy, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2018
  • In practice, video clips look just as unimpressive as the stills.
    PCMAG, 21 May 2024
  • Far worse though is the battery life, which is unimpressive for Ryzen 3000.
    Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Far worse, though, is the battery life, which is unimpressive for Ryzen 3000.
    Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 26 July 2021
  • The Chiefs were unimpressive in beating the Aaron Rodgers-less Packers 13-7.
    Adam Burke Vsin, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Cars broke down and crashed at unimpressive speeds; others failed to start at all.
    Laura Mallonee, WIRED, 25 Mar. 2018
  • That might sound unimpressive because, of course, almost all hunters sit in the woods.
    Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Could the rest of its resume absorb a loss to a team as unimpressive as Virginia?
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Ohio State has rolled off back-to-back wins, but the overall resume is unimpressive.
    Ryan Ginn, ajc, 24 Sep. 2017
  • That’s why their farm system has been so unimpressive for so long.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The regime has tried to muster a show of public support for the strikes on Israel, with unimpressive results.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2024
  • That would be accurate for his career, which got off to an unimpressive start, and for the last two races.
    Tod Leonard, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2019
  • As indicated by the unimpressive track record, the Saudis lack the strength and skill to lead in rolling back the Iranians.
    Jonathan Spyer, The New Republic, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Ground speed was unimpressive, though, maxing at 27 miles per hour.
    Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 1 Mar. 2023
  • But the unimpressive wins are beginning to add up, raising the odds that Cincinnati will at some point no longer get the benefit of the doubt.
    Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 8 Nov. 2021
  • There are a lot of Big Ten defenses ranked high, and some of the numbers are propped up by some unimpressive offenses in the Big Ten.
    Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 5 June 2022
  • The current offering of a few dozen plants is unimpressive.
    Michael Christopher Brown, National Geographic, 22 Mar. 2017
  • Folks in the neighborhood had taken to calling it the Wack Spot, a dingy cardboard box of a structure tucked away at the edge of an unimpressive side street.
    Rion Amilcar Scott, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019
  • The Eight Sleep all-foam mattress is far too expensive for its unimpressive feel.
    Gear Team, Wired, 30 Nov. 2021
  • For many in the region, the plaza three blocks from the White House is an unimpressive slab that plays host to occasional festivals and protests.
    Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The food was very unimpressive and there weren’t a ton of areas onboard to just relax and read in a comfortable setting.
    You, refinery29.com, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Since moving to Paris in the summer of 2017 Mbappe has won four French titles, but each one was a rather mundane, and unimpressive achievement.
    Sam Pilger, Forbes, 22 May 2022
  • One outfit that did had prevailed in an unimpressive 84 games.
    Steve Forbes, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The Tigers were unimpressive in their season-opening loss to Florida State, which has since struggled to a 4-3 record.
    Wally Hall, Arkansas Online, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Booth knows there’s value in every life, no matter how obscure or unimpressive.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Yet there were pockets of excellence amid this unimpressive performance.
    J. Peter Scoblic, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2020

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