How to Use unthreatening in a Sentence

unthreatening

adjective
  • Thus far, the protests in Paris remain unthreatening to tourists.
    — Nikki Ekstein, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Türkiye, in Australia’s first match, had been sluggish and unthreatening.
    — Naaman Zhou, New Yorker, 1 July 2026
  • The unthreatening, cuddly bears soon emerged as the choice to represent China on the world stage.
    — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 July 2024
  • The second goal was set up by what seemed to be an unthreatening short corner from Carles to Nacho along the end line.
    — Frank Dell'apa, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The turbos emit a discreet whoosh, but the V-6 itself sounds meek and wholly unthreatening.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Sep. 2016
  • There was something very unthreatening, ironically, about this man.
    — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The strangers are an unthreatening family of survivors, but Roxanne refuses to take them in.
    — Nick Schager, EW.com, 4 Oct. 2021
  • That leads to less contact with unfamiliar people, and makes even unthreatening acts seem harmful or ill-intended.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Aug. 2019
  • The prose swirls like mist, and his great insight appears to be little more than the unthreatening observation that life is complicated.
    — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2021
  • The idea was to take something familiar and unthreatening — macaroni and cheese, say — and give it the Martha Stewart touch.
    — Pete Wells, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Topping out at only 12 inches as adults and weighing less than two tubs of ice cream, with jet-black masks across their eyes and swollen bellies, meerkats look pretty unthreatening.
    — Mary Holland, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The absolute level of yields is unthreatening, but Treasury holders were selling after a strong rally as the horizon clouds up a bit.
    — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The strength allowed Raleigh to generate power and hit homers even when reaching for pitches that, for other hitters, may have turned into unthreatening bloopers.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 15 July 2025
  • With factors like harsh winter air, too-hot showers, or a recent switch in your product lineup, there are a variety of seemingly unthreatening reasons that could be taking a toll on your skin.
    — Marianne Mychaskiw, Good Housekeeping, 16 Dec. 2020
  • While two players got the night off in a win versus a relatively unthreatening Chicago team, Hynes’ message was aimed at everyone putting on a red and green sweater.
    — Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Hence this minestrone, which is wholesome, meat-free and totally unthreatening and generally feels right for now, particularly in small portions.
    — Yotam Ottolenghi, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Even as the music was being slowly tied to Communism (sometimes accurately), the demeanor of the genre was cheerful and unthreatening.
    — Sasha Frere-Jones, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2022
  • But today’s unthreatening inflation could morph into a more serious enemy.
    — Sebastian Mallaby, Foreign Affairs, 30 June 2021
  • But, in the light of one man’s bloody and woefully misguided decision to invade a peaceful, unthreatening neighbor, the song is, once again, a plea for our common humanity.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 25 Mar. 2022
  • But, in the light of one man's bloody and woefully misguided decision to invade a peaceful, unthreatening neighbor, the song is, once again, a plea for our common humanity.
    — Chloe Melas, CNN, 6 Mar. 2022
  • The hostility tended to evaporate once corpsmen came to town in person, proved unthreatening, and began spending their wages at local diners, shops, and movie theatres.
    — Jim Lardner, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2021
  • King acknowledges that this excursion was possible by the accident of his being an amiable, unthreatening, middle-aged White guy.
    — Marianne Szegedy-Maszak, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023
  • At the end of the performance, the dance troupe removed their blindfolds, revealing the contortionists’ unthreatening appearance.
    — USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
  • The woman in repose offered Victorian viewers an unthreatening sort of sexiness, contained to armchairs and sick beds.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Equities are taking it in stride mostly because the absolute yield level is unthreatening, not enough of a pop to signal that the Fed made a policy error by trimming overnight rates.
    — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Being unable to cut inside onto his stronger foot meant that the Brazilian was often running out of space, forced onto his right foot before making unthreatening passes into the middle of the pitch.
    — Mark Carey, New York Times, 28 June 2025
  • With three minutes left in the first half, junior Anthony Ruiz got through to Warner on fourth-and-1 at the five-yard line, forcing him to chuck an unthreatening pass into the end zone.
    — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 7 Nov. 2021
  • Bacon was manly in an unthreatening, apolitical way, embraced by role models as diverse as Ron Swanson and James Deen.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2024
  • As the world truly moved online, abstract fears were repeatedly met with, and answered by, specific, irresistible and unthreatening products and experiences.
    — John Herrman, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2017
  • Made popular by its seemingly unthreatening nature, cute’s quest for world domination suggests there is more to the phenomenon than its charming exterior might imply.
    — Zara Khan, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024

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