How to Use unceremonious in a Sentence

unceremonious

adjective
  • His unceremonious dismissal by the new boss surprised everybody.
  • Then, her reign came to an unceremonious end over an affair with a married man.
    — Kurt Soller Anu Kumar, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The girl screamed, Bevilacqua sprayed, and her run in the game came to an unceremonious end.
    — Dugan Arnett, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2018
  • Friends huddle around just in time for some thing to make a decidedly unceremonious exit out of the man’s chest.
    — Justin Criado, The Know, 24 Mar. 2017
  • Last season's unceremonious end came in mid-March, cutting the season short by six weeks.
    — Curtis Tate, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2020
  • As of now, the bill looks like it’s headed for an unceremonious end, raising the prospect of a similar fate for a fast-food labor bill.
    — Alex Park, The New Republic, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The transfer of his remains back to his home in the Aleutians was delayed and unceremonious.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 29 May 2022
  • And know, in the back of your mind, that anything but this level of success will likely be met with an unceremonious departure.
    — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Two of the series' most important characters are killed in unceremonious fashion at the height of the sixth episode.
    — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Aug. 2017
  • No single unceremonious strangling of a potential project has created this issue, but all of them in sum have led us here.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2026
  • That left a mass killing event as the most likely explanation for the group’s demise and hasty, unceremonious interment.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Hinds’ unceremonious departure from the band was revealed this year.
    — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The season's unceremonious finale taught Macias valuable life lessons on and off the field.
    — Dana Scott, azcentral, 13 May 2020
  • There was only seven minutes and eight second of overtime and the heartbreak of a golden goal to bring the season to an unceremonious end.
    — Jeremy Price, The Indianapolis Star, 18 May 2021
  • After an unceremonious end in Denver, Marshall shouldn’t have to wait long to see his former team.
    — Matt Kawahara, SFChronicle.com, 29 July 2019
  • Without votes even being cast, Probst sent Bhanu home, an unceremonious move that left a bad taste in some viewers’ mouths.
    — Brian Anthony Hernandez, Peoplemag, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Whatever the case, most of the Browns players hope the best for him, and have no hard feeling about his unceremonious departure.
    — cleveland, 9 Nov. 2021
  • And the response from the one side of the assembled was equally unceremonious, with boos, catcalls and confrontations.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Despite a somewhat unceremonious end to his tenure, Aldridge mostly lived up to billing in six seasons with the Spurs.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Mar. 2021
  • It’s been a month since the Detroit Red Wings’ season came to an unceremonious ending.
    — Max Bultman, New York Times, 20 May 2026
  • Late-night shows went dark, the broadcast networks’ fall season fell through, and the Peak TV era came to an unceremonious end.
    — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2023
  • In some ways, even that unceremonious dismissal is an acknowledgement that managers do matter.
    — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 15 May 2026
  • An unceremonious dumping ground for the sort of horror movies most people can live without, Q1 has long functioned as a graveyard for the genre.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Wednesday’s deal ends Paul’s unceremonious second stint with the franchise.
    — Law Murray, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Even with some of the products on the list being 14 years old or more, users were understandably unhappy to find out about their gear’s unceremonious end.
    — Popular Science, 24 Jan. 2020
  • They were finally cooked, an unceremonious end to a long run of competitive teams, but the veterans got old and/or left, and there weren’t enough new, young players to replace them.
    — Zack Meisel, New York Times, 12 May 2026
  • At the bar, all of the Paradisians celebrate Chris and Alana's unceremonious exit — all but one, that is.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Ten months later, the ripple effects of Cody Bellinger’s unceremonious split from the Dodgers continue to make waves.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Nemesis bombed at the box office, resulting in an unceremonious end to the TNG franchise.
    — Ryan Parker, Peoplemag, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The turn of events marked an unceremonious exit for the secretary of state who was once the chief executive of ExxonMobil.
    — Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2018

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