How to Use unromantic in a Sentence

unromantic

adjective
  • But grouse live here (and in less-idyllic places) for unromantic reasons.
    — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Verbal consent doesn’t have to be a robotic, unromantic thing.
    — Lauren Larson, GQ, 31 May 2018
  • Your work is distinctly unromantic in its view of the natural world.
    — Michael Lapointe, The New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Here’s where the film becomes petty, unromantic, and ill-humored.
    — Armond White, National Review, 7 Oct. 2022
  • It was assigned in a boring, unromantic, practical way as well.
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Dec. 2019
  • Meanwhile, the common date has eroded, now quaint in light of the ubiquitous, unromantic hookup.
    — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 2 Oct. 2017
  • The first blush with ballet for Copeland was famously unromantic.
    — Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Feb. 2016
  • Ester first begins to fall in love while engaged in the unromantic task of academic research.
    — Sheila Heti, The New York Review of Books, 17 Apr. 2021
  • And yet, Charlotte Gray might be the most unromantic romance ever made.
    — Monika Bartyzel, The Week, 5 Oct. 2018
  • How could a film turn such a simple, unromantic word into one of the most gut-wrenching expressions of love ever to be uttered on screen?
    — Kori Williams, Seventeen, 20 Jan. 2023
  • How could a film turn such a simple, unromantic word into one of the most gut-wrenching expressions of love ever to be uttered on screen?
    — Kori Williams, Seventeen, 20 Jan. 2023
  • These compounds, with unromantic names like (E)-beta-ocimene and benzyl methyl ether, are delicate.
    — Lily Stewart, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2024
  • The story begins nine months after the first season’s rather unromantic conclusion.
    — oregonlive, 8 Mar. 2022
  • For too long they have been considered unromantic and pessimistic; a document foisted on a bride by a man of means who cares more about his assets than her happiness.
    — Ginger Gentile, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
  • This unromantic comedy captures the uncertain steps of a circle of friends backing their way into middle age.
    — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 7 Apr. 2018
  • Wright, to be unromantic about it, was about form, not function — the kind of architect who often perceived structural engineers as the enemy.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The novel offers an unromantic yet empathetic close-up of a writer forced to face what his self-absorption had inflicted on his household.
    — Lyndall Gordon, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2022
  • And—at least on the first weekend—this unromantic setting has yielded a pair of workmanlike victories by athletes more beloved by bettors than spectators.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Gorgeous cinematography and a very unromantic portrayal of the grueling life of a secret agent make this a solid watch.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 29 May 2026
  • My careful answer is so legalistic, so unromantic, when the reality is that most people don’t regret having kids.
    — New York Times, 2 Dec. 2021
  • As @yourrichbff spotlights on TikTok, even among people who can afford lawyers, the perception that prenups are unromantic persists.
    — Michael Waters, The New Yorker, 12 July 2022
  • Lest that sound a bit unromantic, researchers have found clear evidence that when the belief in free will increases, so do one’s feelings of passionate love in a relationship.
    — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2021
  • That seemingly unromantic shift towards feeling more like roommates than crushes isn’t inherently bad.
    — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Despite this narrative not-so-sleight of hand, Bump’s ending still manages to be unexpected and unromantic, while containing so much love and hope.
    — Tommy Orange, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2020
  • Millennials bring an unromantic prudence to such choices that often surprises their parents.
    — Neil Howe, Fortune, 18 July 2023
  • Despite the somewhat unromantic nature of a movie based on a military excursion to capture two Somali warlords, my beloved seized my hand and held it for the entire film.
    — Anonymous, refinery29.com, 16 Feb. 2020
  • Full of imperfect lovers and dreamers, Love/Sick is an unromantic comedy for the romantic in everyone.
    — Courant Community, 12 June 2018
  • Twitter users mocked the location of the proposal as inappropriate and unromantic.
    — Morgan Sung, NBC News, 11 May 2022
  • Unforgiven recasts the genre as a pitiless, almost pathologically unromantic realm populated by twits hoping to make their name and aged gunslingers who have to make peace with their bad pasts.
    — Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
  • The most unromantic, perfect proposal.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 4 Dec. 2025

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