How to Use unathletic in a Sentence

unathletic

adjective
  • Those of us who were unathletic kids have fond memories of badminton as our favorite unit in gym class.
    — Gabrielle Bruney, Esquire, 17 Sep. 2017
  • Instead of age, the issue is how unathletic the Heat have become.
    — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 28 May 2021
  • This unathletic 5-foot-6 inch guy isn’t going to be playing a lot of pro sports and never did.
    — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 8 May 2018
  • The Giants’ right tackles did not become unathletic overnight.
    — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 2 Oct. 2017
  • The outfit was far cry from a soccer uniform, and aside from the shoes themselves, an unathletic ensemble.
    — Megan O'Sullivan, Vogue, 18 Aug. 2023
  • New York’s position players are still too unathletic and range-challenged for my tastes, so where is the huge step forward?
    — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Some scouts wonder if Hayes is too slow and unathletic to be much more than a serviceable rotation player.
    — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Blough, at 6-foot, was too small and unathletic to get scholarship offers, even from smaller schools in his native Texas.
    — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 28 Nov. 2019
  • No one openly rejoices when an unathletic student fails a fitness test or exits gym dodgeball early.
    — Richard Menger Md Mpa, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Nonetheless, early drafters have been too eager to draft a somewhat unathletic rookie whose workload is far from assured.
    — Pat Fitzmaurice, SI.com, 2 Aug. 2017
  • My comparatively unathletic brother would get beaten by thousands of women in a mile-long race.
    — Steve Magness, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Hopelessly unathletic and bad at sports, Sandy felt alienated by his family his entire life.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Any unathletic person from an athletic family has spent a lot of time underneath bleachers wondering why they were born.
    — Sarah Miller, The New Yorker, 7 July 2021
  • Embiid and George are now slow, unathletic, expensive vets whose health remains a constant question.
    — Alex Kirschenbaum, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Nov. 2025
  • The undersized, unathletic nature of the roster; 4.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Frontal plan movement helps build and maintain your overall athleticism, and athletic runners are less injury prone than unathletic runners.
    — Jay Johnson, Outside Online, 16 Feb. 2021
  • Slender and unathletic, Raheel had always seemed most content designing video games on his computer.
    — Janet Reitman, New York Times, 6 July 2017
  • In interviews decades later, Norris recalled feeling shy and unathletic as a child, describing his early years in stark terms.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Persistent lower back pain, despite two surgeries to relieve a herniated disc a few years ago—blame an unathletic youth and an adulthood spent hunched over a computer.
    — Peter J. Frank, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2025
  • What impressionable, heterosexual, unathletic adolescent boy would not want a piece of that action?
    — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Even with my unathletic routine, the Exercise Dress made for an incredible addition to my routine.
    — Halie Lesavage, Glamour, 27 June 2018
  • Why would a non-running, unathletic, nacho-loving lad like myself be remotely interested in running 10 miles?
    — Brandon T. Harden, Philly.com, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Fast forward a few years and Bounds, previously a sedentary and unathletic journalist in her mid 40s, has transformed herself into world-class age-group obstacle course racer.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 3 July 2024
  • Without Garrett or Vernon, Arizona also knew Cleveland was unathletic at defensive end and exploited it.
    — cleveland, 17 Jan. 2020
  • At a shirts-and-skins game of gladiator, while another character laments the cruelty of forcing all the unathletic students to be skins, Rowley is off to the side, playfully manipulating his fat folds.
    — Julian Towers, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Complicating matters, the stereotype that Asian Americans are unathletic is reflected in statistics.
    — Washington Post, 22 June 2021
  • In a recent interview, Novak recalled how his father, who coached his Little League team, turned an unathletic teammate into a vital part of the team by recognizing his potential.
    — Don Yaeger, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Interviewed before Saban’s hip injury and subsequent replacement surgery, McKinney said Saban never looks unathletic jogging around the practice field.
    — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 6 Aug. 2019
  • That an 11 seed from the Missouri Valley Conference with players deemed too small, too slow, too unathletic, too something by college basketball’s big brothers can march through March, making one last-second shot after another.
    — Mark Zeigler, sandiegouniontribune.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • European Christians considered Jews effeminate owing to their circumcisions, deeming them a studious, unathletic, hemorrhoidal people unable to gallop through Palestine bedecked in armor and spearing unbelievers.
    — Gary Shteyngart, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021

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