How to Use unsexy in a Sentence
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And a lot of that is just the simple, unsexy, does the email show up?
—Eric Johnson, Recode, 6 Sep. 2018
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And that is the unsexy stuff - the take-back, logistics, and tech.
—Cassell Ferere, Forbes, 26 May 2022
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And no matter how unsexy the details of the battle may be.
—Michelle Cottle, The Atlantic, 23 July 2017
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So box all those boring, unsexy goods up the night before.
—Clay Skipper, GQ, 6 Oct. 2017
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This very unsexy name refers to the surprise reveal of a YouTube star opening a toy in front of a camera.
—Sonja Haller, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2019
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The governor is too much in love with frills, not the unsexy nuts and bolts of keeping up the subway system.
—Jim Dwyer, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2018
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And though people are still getting it on in 2020, these are anxious, unsexy times.
—Lisa Bonos, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2020
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Dakota Johnson is at the center of Fifty Shades' hottest scenes, but the process of making them can get pretty unsexy.
—Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Feb. 2018
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On the other side of the tracks, the old and unsexy names, which fell in March 2020 and could not sustain a decent recovery through the remainder of the year, have all soared.
—Sami J. Karam, National Review, 23 Mar. 2021
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The naked tail of a hermit crab is a flaccid, unsexy, and vulnerable thing.
—Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2012
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If Casper could build brand affinity in the unsexy mattress space, couldn’t Udashkin do it with luggage?
—Chavie Lieber, Vox, 12 Dec. 2018
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Of course, toe shoes have been rearing their unsexy and fascinating heads for quite some time.
—Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 30 May 2018
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Global finance is an unsexy but important part of the book.
—Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
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To some degree, tires are about as unsexy and primitive as the lump of rubber many people mistake them for.
—Michael Grabell, ProPublica, 3 May 2023
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In that light, the undies are provocative by virtue of their unabashedly unsexy proportions.
—Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2018
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Millipedes do the unsexy yet essential work of keeping the forests from drowning in their dead.
—Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2023
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Investors, for their part, see beef firms as unsexy businesses with thin margins.
—The Economist, 11 June 2020
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Cincinnati is still trying to figure out its best style to play; Pittsburgh is playing an unsexy style that’s working.
—Charlie Hatch, Cincinnati.com, 2 Sep. 2017
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In what’s become a loud, extreme and disruptive era in the history of business, the unsexy choice is sometimes the sensible one.
—Sam Walker, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2018
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And what better way to teach humanity to use A.I. than through something as unsexy as a word processor?
—Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
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Horowitz also prioritized the unsexy but critical work of just making the clothes nicer.
—Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2021
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However unsexy, nuts-and-bolts dental hygiene is key to keeping your smile young-looking.
—Abbie Kozolchyk, Good Housekeeping, 7 Jan. 2011
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The war in Ukraine has given the relatively unsexy field of international law a moment in the spotlight.
—Claire Parker, Washington Post, 30 June 2022
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Or, maybe, your summer was hot and smelly, full of subway rats and public urination and unsexy experiments with drugs.
—Michelle Santiago Cortés, refinery29.com, 3 Sep. 2021
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This might seem a funny thing to say about a woman who is constantly flailing around in bikinis trying to look as unsexy as possible.
—New York Times, 3 Nov. 2021
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Wright’s hero is Dr. Henry Parsons, a physically frail but not unsexy legend in the field of contagion.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 13 May 2020
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Market-data vendors are relatively unsexy, and their revenues aren’t growing at nearly the rate of some of the consumer tech firms.
—John Detrixhe, Quartz, 4 Dec. 2020
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But the foundation of the search tool also relies on a lot of rote computation, unsexy work done in great big data centers that use lots of energy.
—Matt Simon, Wired, 31 Jan. 2022
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The models for Abercrombie & Fitch might be nice to look at, but this documentary delves into the unsexy side of the century-old company.
—Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 30 July 2022
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Dalio started Bridgewater as a kind of consultancy for commodities, an asset class that had long been seen as unsexy.
—Tarpley Hitt, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2023
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