How to Use unglamorous in a Sentence

unglamorous

adjective
  • Stand your ground — that matters — but don’t be too proud to do the unglamorous work.
    — Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 3 June 2026
  • This was the most unglamorous part of this majestic opera house.
    — Essence, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Use this time for the unglamorous groundwork that pays off later.
    — Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2025
  • How sooty and unglamorous, how beholden to the old.
    — Literary Hub, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Their run defense, often an unglamorous job, needs help.
    — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2026
  • And the same holds in the unglamorous terrain of our daily dealings.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2023
  • For Zabala, the message is blunt and unglamorous.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Being an auditor is a tough, unglamorous job, but someone has to do it.
    — Peter Jones, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2017
  • The engineers who debug the unglamorous code no one will ever see.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • The work was unglamorous but paid the mortgage and sometimes the college tuition bill.
    — John Schmid, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2021
  • But the need is still for unglamorous negotiating, and that heart still beats, too.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Scales has worked all his life, mostly in unglamorous positions at retail stores.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2022
  • Welcome to the unglamorous side of content creation.
    — Ayana Hyman, Refinery29, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Their lives are about attention to unglamorous details, not bravado and myth.
    — Jose A. Del Real, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2022
  • But a part of humanizing us has to be rooted in the mundane and unglamorous, too.
    — Taryn Finley, Refinery29, 14 May 2025
  • Many are unglamorous, but critical.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2025
  • That her neat tuxedo jacket now comes with a pale, unglamorous splash of vomit on its collar still does not negate her poise.
    — Philippa Snow, The New Republic, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Thanks to the Party operatives who do the unglamorous work, day in and day out.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2020
  • The unglamorous culprit, over and over again, is data delivery.
    — Sven Oehme, Forbes.com, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Closing that gap starts with the unglamorous preparation work most companies want to skip.
    — Shaz Khan, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • These schools are doing the hard, unglamorous work of helping students climb the income ladder.
    — Leadership Brainery, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Because the business is perceived as unglamorous, the stock sells for only nine times earnings.
    — John Dorfman, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Limited food choices are not the only unglamorous part of the diet.
    — Kimberly Mugler, Rd, Ldn, Philly.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • But that's not the unglamorous only self-care ritual Bieber shares in this adorable photo dump.
    — Marci Robin, Allure, 23 Mar. 2026
  • An unpaid and unglamorous nighttime shift represented a crack in the door.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2019
  • And that need is in unglamorous settings that the frontier labs aren’t pitching and most investors aren’t watching.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 8 June 2026
  • And that need is in unglamorous settings that the frontier labs aren’t pitching and most investors aren’t watching.
    — Bhaskar Chakravorti, Fortune, 7 June 2026
  • Because 14th Night is so close to my heart, even the unglamorous work felt exciting.
    — Perrie Samotin, Glamour, 1 Mar. 2026
  • There was a distinctly unglamorous side, in fact, to Fleming’s Bond.
    — Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Clearing leaves around your property is an unglamorous part of home ownership and a downside of fall.
    — Brandon Russell, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2023

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