How to Use unsexy in a Sentence

unsexy

adjective
  • And a lot of that is just the simple, unsexy, does the email show up?
    — Eric Johnson, Recode, 6 Sep. 2018
  • And that is the unsexy stuff - the take-back, logistics, and tech.
    — Cassell Ferere, Forbes, 26 May 2022
  • The unsexy work that creates sexy results.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Cognizant’s Warikoo agreed that is the unsexy core of the problem.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 June 2026
  • Their work is essential, but unsexy.
    — Elizabeth Kaye Cook august 6, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Heated Rivalry met us at a very unsexy time in our lives.
    — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Of course, toe shoes have been rearing their unsexy and fascinating heads for quite some time.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 30 May 2018
  • Investors, for their part, see beef firms as unsexy businesses with thin margins.
    — The Economist, 11 June 2020
  • The governor is too much in love with frills, not the unsexy nuts and bolts of keeping up the subway system.
    — Jim Dwyer, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2018
  • The naked tail of a hermit crab is a flaccid, unsexy, and vulnerable thing.
    — Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2012
  • In that light, the undies are provocative by virtue of their unabashedly unsexy proportions.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2018
  • Perhaps unsexy, their sound free-agent additions and draft addressed any depth concerns.
    — Jacob Robinson, New York Times, 28 May 2026
  • To some degree, tires are about as unsexy and primitive as the lump of rubber many people mistake them for.
    — Michael Grabell, ProPublica, 3 May 2023
  • Millipedes do the unsexy yet essential work of keeping the forests from drowning in their dead.
    — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2023
  • And though people are still getting it on in 2020, these are anxious, unsexy times.
    — Lisa Bonos, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2020
  • In other words, the formerly sizzling metros have gone cold, and the unsexy plodders are back in vogue.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2026
  • However unsexy, nuts-and-bolts dental hygiene is key to keeping your smile young-looking.
    — Abbie Kozolchyk, Good Housekeeping, 7 Jan. 2011
  • This very unsexy name refers to the surprise reveal of a YouTube star opening a toy in front of a camera.
    — Sonja Haller, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2019
  • If Casper could build brand affinity in the unsexy mattress space, couldn’t Udashkin do it with luggage?
    — Chavie Lieber, Vox, 12 Dec. 2018
  • Horowitz also prioritized the unsexy but critical work of just making the clothes nicer.
    — Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Cincinnati is still trying to figure out its best style to play; Pittsburgh is playing an unsexy style that’s working.
    — Charlie Hatch, Cincinnati.com, 2 Sep. 2017
  • The change centered on an unsexy-sounding maneuver known as a Roth conversion.
    — Justin Elliott, ProPublica, 24 June 2021
  • Or, maybe, your summer was hot and smelly, full of subway rats and public urination and unsexy experiments with drugs.
    — Michelle Santiago Cortés, refinery29.com, 3 Sep. 2021
  • The unsexy but world-shaping municipal bond market.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
  • This might seem a funny thing to say about a woman who is constantly flailing around in bikinis trying to look as unsexy as possible.
    — New York Times, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The big drawback is the fact that the machine is obtrusive, awkward, and decidedly unsexy.
    — Gilad Edelman, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2026
  • End the daily drawer dig Drawer organizers are the unsexy hero of busy weeknights.
    — Kansas City Star, 1 May 2026
  • Spending time outside for long stretches away from home requires basic, unsexy necessities.
    — Essence, 30 Aug. 2025
  • In what’s become a loud, extreme and disruptive era in the history of business, the unsexy choice is sometimes the sensible one.
    — Sam Walker, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2018
  • Market-data vendors are relatively unsexy, and their revenues aren’t growing at nearly the rate of some of the consumer tech firms.
    — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 4 Dec. 2020

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