How to Use unappetizing in a Sentence

unappetizing

adjective
  • All those unappetizing items go in your brown yard waste cart, not the black trash cart or the blue recycle cart.
    — Terri Daxon, Oc Register, 28 May 2026
  • And, if the dish still tastes unappetizing, try adding barbecue, sweet chili, or hot sauce.
    — Special To The Plain Dealer, cleveland.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • For investors, weak sales and rising costs make for an unappetizing mix.
    — Aaron Back, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Few projects sound quite as unappetizing as cleaning out the attic.
    — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 7 Dec. 2025
  • Few projects sound quite as unappetizing as cleaning out the attic.
    — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Few projects sound quite as unappetizing as cleaning out the attic.
    — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2024
  • Dump cakes, no matter how unappetizing the name, are one of the easiest genre of cake.
    — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 20 Feb. 2026
  • But, to her, the idea of leaving a review was unappetizing.
    — James Doubek, NPR, 26 Feb. 2026
  • But all that earnest salesmanship had just made beans seem unappetizing.
    — Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
  • So the Aztecs have the potential to keep things close and make this an unappetizing rock fight.
    — USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2023
  • This isn’t the first time that scientists have looked to unappetizing leavings to learn more about the past.
    — Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian, 4 May 2018
  • Cook them too long and an unappetizing greenish ring can appear around the center.
    — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 2 Feb. 2024
  • But asking them not to cook food that smells unappetizing to you, and is likely delightful to them?
    — Diana Budds, Architectural Digest, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The food was unappetizing and there were no on-site medical services.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 9 May 2017
  • While freezer burn looks unnatural and maybe a bit unappetizing, your meat is still safe to eat.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 26 July 2022
  • But about halfway through, the chips started to get soggy and unappetizing.
    — Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2022
  • On the whole, impressions of the Oleato line have been…unappetizing.
    — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 30 Mar. 2023
  • On its own, that’s…well, unappetizing, but nothing too egregious, right?
    — Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The food at Black’s looked the most unappetizing to me out of the three, and the presentation is a bit off-putting too.
    — Chris O'Connell, Chron, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Flowers are pasted all over it, seemingly at random, and strings of them fall off the hem in an unappetizing way.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Germany would face the biggest single bill, an unappetizing prospect in an election year.
    — Pan Pylas, The Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2017
  • Gadgets Sous vide machines can make tasty fare but the technique often leaves meat gray and unappetizing.
    — Joe Ray, WIRED, 10 May 2018
  • Hook explains that for natural rind cheese, the impacts of plastic are just as unappetizing.
    — Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 24 May 2026
  • Digging in results in the Cheeto sprinkles to fall in the broth and turn it into an unappetizing bright-red sludge.
    — Emma Balter, Chron, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The rules of the game are pretty simple, either answer a tough question or eat something unappetizing.
    — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Afterall, there are few things as unappetizing as a spoonful of stale cereal.
    — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Afterall, there are few things as unappetizing as a spoonful of stale cereal.
    — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Turtles have built-in armor in the form of their iconic shells, and slugs produce an unappetizing mucus that no one is eager to gulp down for dinner.
    — Hannah Lang, National Geographic, 25 Mar. 2019
  • Forced to resort to game manager mode, Brady has faced unappetizing choices.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Nov. 2019
  • Our bacon and ranch dressing obsessions could very well look unappetizing to our children and grandchildren in mere decades.
    — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2018

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