How to Use undistinguished in a Sentence

undistinguished

adjective
  • In fact, all the streets in the song are kind of undistinguished.
    — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
  • For him to now be followed by his undistinguished son is a slap in the face.
    — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2026
  • But in Odette’s undistinguished prairie burg, this case has become the town’s claim to fame.
    — Joyce Sáenz Harris, Dallas News, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Which is not to say the performances are undistinguished.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2026
  • For the most part, though, his record in getting laws enacted is undistinguished.
    — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
  • His career was that of an undistinguished but long placeholder.
    — WSJ, 6 Apr. 2021
  • From these undistinguished origins arose Garner the gourmand.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2023
  • This was a high point in an otherwise undistinguished defensive career for Oubre.
    — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 20 Dec. 2020
  • Isaac Tate's opponent in this election has an undistinguished record on the Council.
    — Arkansas Online, 20 Sep. 2020
  • The only holdovers from the house’s undistinguished forerunner are its foundation, a chimney and two bedroom walls.
    — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2017
  • During his undistinguished two-year run as coach of the Broncos, that confidence seemed unharnessed.
    — Stephen Holder, Indianapolis Star, 19 Jan. 2018
  • An homage to the Italian colonials, the spaghetti comes with a light tomato sauce, sometimes with ground beef, and is fairly undistinguished.
    — Beth Segal, cleveland.com, 2 Mar. 2018
  • This undistinguished cartoon about three maidens holding up a building is not a story but a situation stretched out to six minutes.
    — Jeremy Fassler, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2025
  • This undistinguished cartoon about three maidens holding up a building is not a story but a situation stretched out to six minutes.
    — Jeremy Fassler, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2025
  • After that, the work is generally agreed to have become indistinct and undistinguished.
    — Kathryn Hughes, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020
  • After that, the work is generally agreed to have become indistinct and undistinguished.
    — Kathryn Hughes, The New York Review of Books, 8 Sep. 2020
  • If so, the Texan’s legacy would far outweigh his short, undistinguished tenure in Congress.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 2017
  • But the noisy, undistinguished vibrator that's now collecting dust under my bed was not, perhaps, her main invention.
    — Lux Alptraum, Wired, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Dallas Green is technically the third to manage both teams, albeit it for mostly undistinguished stints.
    — Larry Fleisher, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Years earlier, however, Hill’s undistinguished looks may have given her a front-row seat to history.
    — John Baldoni, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Oliver was the most surprising player to stick on the roster after his undistinguished performance last year and in the preseason.
    — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 31 Aug. 2022
  • If the lakes form a network of rest areas along a vast migration route, the undistinguished flies stock the shelves, refueling birds on their journeys halfway across the world.
    — Daniel Rothberg, Vox, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Then there’s the United States’ long and undistinguished track record in attempting to help develop and reform these countries.
    — Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2021
  • The book follows the life of a Midwestern farm boy who becomes an undistinguished professor of literature.
    — Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Jacobs does at least have an eye for some unusual Los Angeles locations, though the visual style of the film as a whole is undistinguished.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2017
  • Meulens, now the bench coach for the San Francisco Giants, had a short, undistinguished playing career with three teams.
    — Kevin Baxter, latimes.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • The building on San Vicente Boulevard in Brentwood is undistinguished.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2020
  • Camp overlooked Healey simply because Healey was an undistinguished 190-pound end at Dartmouth.
    — Will Larkin, chicagotribune.com, 7 Aug. 2019
  • The spotlight may require Elliott to spend much of the next eight weeks before the primary for governor fleeing from his own undistinguished record of a decade in the House.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 20 June 2026
  • Despite these successes at work, Ron scans as a discomfited and undistinguished middle manager.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 12 Nov. 2025

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