How to Use unpopular in a Sentence

unpopular

adjective
  • I was unpopular in high school.
  • Recent conflicts have made him unpopular among the staff.
  • Her third album has been unpopular with fans.
  • And that was a wildly unpopular thing to do at the time.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 1 June 2026
  • Wood chips seem to have proven unpopular.
    — Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Much of the work of the civil rights movement was unpopular in its own time.
    — Made By History, Time, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The tag is unpopular among some players who hope to get a large contract right away.
    — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2022
  • But the deuce was unpopular and never gained a foothold with the public.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 17 Sep. 2022
  • The White House knows how deeply unpopular high gas prices are.
    — Maegan Vazquez and Donald Judd, CNN, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Drastic cuts to those programs are unpopular, so there just isn’t that much to cut.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Health officials knew the sports pause last fall would be unpopular, based on e-mails at the time.
    — Jeremy Olson, Star Tribune, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Trump is very unpopular in Britain.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
  • Donna, our polls show that the tariffs were very unpopular.
    — ABC News, 22 Feb. 2026
  • In society today, kids are afraid to speak up and say things that are unpopular.
    — Christina Coulter, Fox News, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Polling shows the mass pardons were unpopular.
    — Cameron Schoppa, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • So the coach made an unpopular ruling that all players would wear seven-stud cleats for the game.
    — Jeff Howe, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2026
  • The time switch was so unpopular that the law was repealed the following year.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Born with a silver spoon in his mouth and aligned with an unpopular president.
    — Tia Mitchell, AJC.com, 22 June 2026
  • The war has always been unpopular in this country.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 18 June 2026
  • What the left needs more than anything right now is courage, spine, willingness to be unpopular.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
  • But the title mattered less than the ideas, and those had become unpopular.
    — Shay Khatiri, The Week, 26 Mar. 2022
  • All of those options would be unpopular with voters.
    — Hugh Leask,chloe Taylor, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The idea of rebates is to boost support for a tax that might otherwise be unpopular.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2022
  • But what appears unpopular at first and what proves profitable in the future are often the same thing.
    — Will Bedingfield, Wired, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Lawmakers dragged their feet for months over the new law, and it is expected to be unpopular.
    — Samya Kullab and Illia Novikov, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Rebates can also be used to convince the public that an unpopular tax isn’t so bad.
    — Robert Goulder, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Trump is wildly unpopular and losing ground fast.
    — Chris Brennan, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Polls have shown the campaign is widely unpopular.
    — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2026
  • That’s a big leap from attacking unpopular fees.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Then and now, the Democrats were divided over unpopular wars.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2024

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