How to Use unromantic in a Sentence

unromantic

adjective
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  • But grouse live here (and in less-idyllic places) for unromantic reasons.
    — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 24 Dec. 2020
  • And yet, Charlotte Gray might be the most unromantic romance ever made.
    — Monika Bartyzel, The Week, 5 Oct. 2018
  • Ah, Paris—is there anything unromantic about this city?
    — Betsy Blumenthal, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Meanwhile, the common date has eroded, now quaint in light of the ubiquitous, unromantic hookup.
    — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 2 Oct. 2017
  • 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?
    — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 4 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • Verbal consent doesn’t have to be a robotic, unromantic thing.
    — Lauren Larson, GQ, 31 May 2018
  • 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
  • It was assigned in a boring, unromantic, practical way as well.
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • The unromantic transaction—which is risky for the male, who has to worry about a surprise attack from the female—can produce around 1,000 spiderlings if successful.
    — National Geographic, 16 Sep. 2017
  • My husband did some Googling of his own, more directed, efficient, unromantic, logical Googling, and found that Ray Holt had a website.
    — Sarah Fallon, Wired, 23 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • And yet the house itself was unromantic: a stolid Victorian villa, built of massive blocks of red sandstone, on a steep hill overlooking a small seaside town.
    — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2019
  • At perhaps the most unromantic bar in Venice, I was filled with love and gratitude—for the man who was legally bound to be my lifelong travel partner, and for our continued journey together.
    — Caitlin Raux Gunther, Bon Appétit, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The story begins nine months after the first season’s rather unromantic conclusion.
    — oregonlive, 8 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Enter the ungainly, decidedly unromantic Alto-Shaam, a single-compartment unit, which looks an R2-D2 droid equipped with a fire box that burns wood chips.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Full of imperfect lovers and dreamers, Love/Sick is an unromantic comedy for the romantic in everyone.
    — Courant Community, 12 June 2018
  • One of the inner voices needed to grow leadership agility, The Agilist is pragmatic, unromantic and courageous.
    — Chuen Chuen Yeo, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Kelly Reichardt’s radically unromantic tale of survival on the Oregon Trail sweats the details, focusing on the arduous day-to-day routines involved in moving across the Oregon high desert in search of a better life.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 18 Jan. 2021
  • As the director is wont to do, the film's anniversary is being commemorated with a spiffy restoration—as well as a deeply unromantic feature on buoyancy and hypothermia?—that will run in theaters on Valentine’s Day weekend.
    — Jessie Heyman, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2022

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