How to Use unexceptional in a Sentence

unexceptional

adjective
  • As an actor he was unexceptional, but he had a beautiful singing voice.
  • Much of it is fine, if unexceptional, and sees little more than a ride or two.
    — Outside Online, 15 Aug. 2014
  • But an inferior tee shot led to a bailout, an unexceptional chip and a two-putt par.
    — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Soon after, there was a third, and a fourth, and the achievement became unexceptional.
    — Mark Harris, EW.com, 7 Jan. 2022
  • The clips are paired with unexceptional small sculptures of the dancer engulfed in rippling bronze rather than gossamer robes.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2022
  • The present lawsuit is an unexceptional member of this broader group.
    — Priya Cherian Huskins, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Throw tons of strikes while being solid if unexceptional in other key areas.
    — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The running time is unexceptional in one sense, a few minutes over two hours, but notable in another.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2021
  • From the surface, these 22 square miles of water are unexceptional.
    — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Cutting pollution could come down to an act as unexceptional as waiting until bedtime to charge the minivan.
    — Jaclyn Gallucci, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Expecting to see unexceptional posts from your friends makes users more generous with one another, and with themselves.
    — New York Times, 10 May 2022
  • Naysayers complain Reeves’ two out of nine wins in the Super Bowl is unexceptional.
    — Tara McClary Reeves, The Denver Post, 15 Oct. 2019
  • So is the impact of fiercely controlling fathers on unexceptional and needy sons, who seek to fill their gaping emotional voids with shiny objects.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Dad had always told me his father was a naval officer who'd had an unexceptional career and died suddenly in a traffic accident.
    — CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025
  • His greatest accomplishments have come from doing the unexceptional in some of the most exceptional ways.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • On the contrary, Ochoa's club career has been remarkably unexceptional.
    — SI.com, 22 June 2019
  • An athletic quarterback with unexceptional passing skills tries the other end of the equation, as a wide receiver.
    — Les Bowen, Philly.com, 7 June 2017
  • Chapman’s unexceptional outing allowed Pete Alonso to come up to the plate and show off in a vintage fashion.
    — Deesha Thosar, courant.com, 3 Sep. 2020
  • But the Rangers’ attempts to build from within over the last six losing seasons have been unexceptional, and that’s using the word in the most benign way possible.
    — Dallas News, 5 Jan. 2023
  • They’re happily absorbed by the real-time whorls and eddies of their own largely unexceptional—which is not the same thing as boring—experiences.
    — Peter C. Baker, The New York Review of Books, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Andy’s first thoughts were about Rich’s column from the day before, in which Rich wrote that the impeachment feels rather unhistoric and unexceptional.
    — Nr Staff, National Review, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Will their parents be able to bring action against the school years and years later for not calling home over these common and unexceptional behaviors when one student out of dozens comes out years later?
    — Peter Greene, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
  • On a normal game day, the officials’ locker room is a small, unexceptional room on the other side of Sanford Stadium.
    — Ross Dellenger, SI.com, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Even in good times, economic growth under the euro was unexceptional, but with the global financial crisis, the situation grew dire.
    — Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2016
  • Once the default uniform of the unexceptional American office man, this staple has done an about-face in recent years and reclaimed its full potential.
    — Gq Bespoke - Sponsor Content, GQ, 17 Oct. 2017
  • His subject is the complexities of specific human beings—appealingly unexceptional ones—and the trials, large and small, that life throws their way.
    — Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 4 May 2022
  • The monologue that led to Kimmel’s involuntary hiatus was thoroughly unexceptional for the show.
    — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Unlike in Van Sant’s film, though, we are treated merely to Ray’s unexceptional and unilluminating thoughts.
    — Bécquer Seguín, Slate Magazine, 21 July 2017
  • But by then SPACs will have become commonplace and unexceptional, their sharp edges sanded by regulators and sober bankers.
    — Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 31 May 2021
  • After her brother died a decade ago at age 55, Karla and her mother opened the museum, which has become an unusual memorial to one man’s unexceptional life.
    — John Carlisle, Freep.com, 1 July 2020

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