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
• The White House knows how deeply unpopular high gas prices are.
  — Maegan Vazquez and Donald Judd, CNN, 22 Feb. 2022
• 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• The time switch was so unpopular that the law was repealed the following year.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
• The move to abolish ICE is proving to be equally unpopular in polling over the last four years.
  — Daniel Bice, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2022
• The tag is unpopular among some players who hope to get a large contract right away.
  — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2022
• In those places, Trump and Trumpism were not unpopular at all.
  — Alexander Burns, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
• That quickly proved unpopular and Musk and the board did a U-turn, announcing it for the best that Musk would not form part of the boardroom.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 14 Apr. 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
• But the title mattered less than the ideas, and those had become unpopular.
  — Shay Khatiri, The Week, 26 Mar. 2022
• The bank has been revising a set of new rules, dubbed the Basel Endgame, that has been broadly unpopular in the industry.
  — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 6 Jan. 2025
• But now the Biden DOE is in the process of reinstating these time-wasting and unpopular rules.
  — Ben Lieberman, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022
• In a small town, a dogged reporter is inevitably an unpopular one.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• But what appears unpopular at first and what proves profitable in the future are often the same thing.
  — Will Bedingfield, Wired, 13 Jan. 2022
• Before the resurgence of all things the 1990s, this might have been an unpopular confession.
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 22 July 2023
• In the latter half of the decade, the government made some hasty and unpopular decisions.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 23 Dec. 2021
• Britain’s House of Lords is bloated, lazy and unpopular.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2022
• The idea of rebates is to boost support for a tax that might otherwise be unpopular.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2022
• What the left needs more than anything right now is courage, spine, willingness to be unpopular.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
• 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
• But Pace will have known the decision would be unpopular.
  — Robert Kidd, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
• The economy is not good, and the President is both a Democrat and unpopular.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2022
• Scholz came to power after the sixteen-year reign of Angela Merkel, but has become unpopular amid a stagnant economy—one that was once the pride, if not exactly the envy, of the continent.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 26 Jan 2025