How to Use unpopular in a Sentence

unpopular

adjective

• I was unpopular in high school.
• Recent conflicts have made him unpopular among the staff.
• Her third album has been unpopular with fans.
• Past fan protests forced the league to abandon unpopular Monday night games, the last of which was played in 2021.
  — James Ellingworth, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2024
• But the deuce was unpopular and never gained a foothold with the public.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 17 Sep. 2022
• The time switch was so unpopular that the law was repealed the following year.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 6 Nov. 2022
• In those places, Trump and Trumpism were not unpopular at all.
  — Alexander Burns, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
• Drastic cuts to those programs are unpopular, so there just isn’t that much to cut.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2023
• In a small town, a dogged reporter is inevitably an unpopular one.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• Before the resurgence of all things the 1990s, this might have been an unpopular confession.
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 22 July 2023
• Britain’s House of Lords is bloated, lazy and unpopular.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2022
• In society today, kids are afraid to speak up and say things that are unpopular.
  — Christina Coulter, Fox News, 3 Mar. 2024
• Then and now, the Democrats were divided over unpopular wars.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2024
• The Russian call-up has proved unpopular at home, prompting tens of thousands of Russian men to flee the country.
  — Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2022
• Lawmakers dragged their feet for months over the new law, and it is expected to be unpopular.
  — Samya Kullab and Illia Novikov, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Apr. 2024
• The Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs has proven to be massively unpopular.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2022
• The economy is not good, and the President is both a Democrat and unpopular.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2022
• Netanyahu currently is one of the most unpopular leaders in the world.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 24 July 2024
• Only three students came, since the class was unpopular (three hundred pages of reading a week).
  — Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
• Addison plays Padgett, a popular girl who takes on a bet to turn the most unpopular kid in school into the prom king.
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 16 Nov. 2022
• Argentina’s Congress could throw out parts of the draft law that are highly unpopular and could spark more street protests.
  — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 22 Jan. 2024
• This shift runs against the purpose of the First Amendment, which was intended to protect unpopular speech.
  — Jacob McHangama, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2024
• Then Ruto rammed through an unpopular new tax to build more housing.
  — Declan Walsh, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2023
• The first—an unpopular but obvious choice—is to cut back spending.
  — Mahnoor Khan, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2024
• The decision from the Glazers to keep hold of the club will almost certainly anger fans, who have protested for years to oust the unpopular owners.
  — Giles Turner, Fortune Europe, 25 Dec. 2023
• In 2016 voters took a chance on the brash outsider businessman against the unpopular Hillary Clinton.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2022
• The new law is hugely unpopular, with hundreds of Iowans showing up at the state Capitol to protest the bill as it was being debated.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 14 July 2023
• And in 2019, the moderate Andy Beshear (narrowly) knocked out the unpopular Bevin from office.
  — Mark Murray, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2023
• Zuckerberg isn’t alone in making some unpopular staffing decisions in order to maintain a Big Tech behemoth dynamic.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2024
• Raising the retirement age is another option likely to be unpopular with voters.
  — Jason Ma, Fortune Europe, 14 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024