How to Use unsexy in a Sentence

unsexy

adjective

• And a lot of that is just the simple, unsexy, does the email show up?
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 6 Sep. 2018
• And that is the unsexy stuff - the take-back, logistics, and tech.
  — Cassell Ferere, Forbes, 26 May 2022
• And no matter how unsexy the details of the battle may be.
  — Michelle Cottle, The Atlantic, 23 July 2017
• So box all those boring, unsexy goods up the night before.
  — Clay Skipper, GQ, 6 Oct. 2017
• 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
• 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
• And though people are still getting it on in 2020, these are anxious, unsexy times.
  — Lisa Bonos, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2020
• 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
• 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
• The naked tail of a hermit crab is a flaccid, unsexy, and vulnerable thing.
  — Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2012
• If Casper could build brand affinity in the unsexy mattress space, couldn’t Udashkin do it with luggage?
  — Chavie Lieber, Vox, 12 Dec. 2018
• Of course, toe shoes have been rearing their unsexy and fascinating heads for quite some time.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 30 May 2018
• Global finance is an unsexy but important part of the book.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
• 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
• In that light, the undies are provocative by virtue of their unabashedly unsexy proportions.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2018
• Millipedes do the unsexy yet essential work of keeping the forests from drowning in their dead.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2023
• Investors, for their part, see beef firms as unsexy businesses with thin margins.
  — The Economist, 11 June 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Horowitz also prioritized the unsexy but critical work of just making the clothes nicer.
  — Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2021
• As unsexy as protecting our skin from the sun used to seem, the skin-care routine staple has finally pushed its way to the front of beauty conversations.
  — Victoria Montalti, refinery29.com, 7 Mar. 2024
• However unsexy, nuts-and-bolts dental hygiene is key to keeping your smile young-looking.
  — Abbie Kozolchyk, Good Housekeeping, 7 Jan. 2011
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Sam Elliott may finally be an Oscar nominee, but there’s no topping the career height that is making Patrick Swayze look like an unsexy doofus.
  — Rebecca Pahle, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024