How to Use unpromising in a Sentence

unpromising

adjective

• Things got off to an unpromising start.
• She can do a lot with unpromising material.
• Like the unpromising shape, the feel of the car is just not very sporty.
  — Kevin Smith, Car and Driver, 26 Dec. 2022
• Amid such an unpromising start to the year, farmers caught a break from Mother Nature.
  — Evan Ramstad, Star Tribune, 9 Jan. 2021
• And how will these artists, who had developed in the most unpromising of circumstances, handle the world-wide fame and celebrity that came their way in their 40s and 50s?
  — Ann Landi, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2018
• Here is a brilliant young mind, stranded in a bleak, unpromising landscape.
  — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2022
• The company may be smart to wriggle out of unpromising leases, but that could force WeWork to pay penalties.
  — Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2019
• Then hang on for many years while keeping an eye out for any unpromising developments.
  — Dallas News, 7 June 2020
• From this unpromising straw, the American natcons tried to spin the political gold of an all-out culture war.
  — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2022
• But if the political process is unpromising, people working in the market are making their own progress.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 25 Mar. 2018
• Through the narrow lens of politics – gauging the prospects of a landmark deal to make good on the unfulfilled promise of the 2015 Paris Agreement – the picture looks distinctly unpromising.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Nov. 2021
• Perhaps the most creative choice was taking poor-quality soil that wouldn’t grow vegetables and planting olive trees that thrive on those unpromising acres.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2021
• Skillful manipulation of the grill can make unpromising odds and ends worth eating.
  — New York Times, 13 July 2021
• In this unpromising milieu, the young Picasso, with his broken French and outcast friends, struggled to avoid arrest or even expulsion.
  — Hugh Eakin, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
• The macro-level picture is also unpromising – the entire Chinese economy is slowing down (or worse).
  — George Calhoun, Forbes, 1 June 2022
• The unpromising weather nearly persuaded him to call off the attempt, run an ordinary race and save the more intensive effort for a meet in London scheduled 10 days later.
  — Frank Litsky and Bruce Weber, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2018
• The deprivation felt in a swing state like Nevada, which is home to a key Senate race this year, and across the nation reflects the unpromising environment for Democrats trying to maintain control of Congress.
  — Maeve Reston and Stephen Collinson, CNN, 13 Jan. 2022
• For the teenagers who don’t manage to excel at academics, despite their obvious intelligence and wit, the years ahead may not just be unpromising, but a virtual and never-ending prison.
  — Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 19 May 2022
• Either that or a vegan-punk festival where the weather forecast was unpromising.
  — Geoff Dyer, GQ, 5 Feb. 2018
• Only Boris Johnson could take such unpromising material and turn it to his advantage.
  — Rosa Prince, CNN, 1 Feb. 2022
• The results have been far from unpromising, notwithstanding the fog machine of an unimaginative and conformist press.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2020
• Teddy’s unpromising fifth cousin—was written off as a rich, foppish lightweight with little more than an aristocratic accent and rich parents.
  — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2018
• The results were so clearly unpromising that the researchers ended the hydroxychloroquine arm of their study prematurely.
  — Grace Huckins, Wired, 17 June 2020
• The history of live music performance series on YouTube was also unpromising.
  — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 27 Nov. 2019
• An unpromising design that has been pushed and shoved toward reasonable levels of refinement and performance.
  — Kevin Smith, Car and Driver, 4 Mar. 2023
• Both Mr. Parker and the woman came from strikingly similar and largely unpromising backgrounds.
  — Brooks Barnes and Cara Buckley, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2016
• The queasy mix of realism and wish-fulfillment will set many viewers’ heads spinning, or at least shaking with disappointment, in this well-intentioned but unpromising debut.
  — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2022
• Here, though, the unpromising architecture supports the paintings’ impact.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 9 Oct. 2017
• Mariam, who’s approaching 70, couldn’t afford hundreds of dollars more, and other options looked unpromising.
  — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Dec. 2021
• Despite an unpromising high school record, Close went on to junior college and then transferred to the University of Washington, Seattle, graduating as an art major with high honors in 1962.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024