nondescript
Example Sentences
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Far from the glamour of fashion weeks in Paris, Milan and London, a nondescript cashmere mill on Scotland's western coast that supplies luxury labels hopes local training programmes can attract new talent.
From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026
“You wonder why Maduro didn’t go to some nondescript apartment in the middle of Caracas or the countryside.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026
It carries double meaning here at Backyard Party, a new all-ages music venue in a nondescript business park on the border of Pasadena and Altadena.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2025
It will also hinge on the success of the monumental logistical operation at the heart of Operation Plan Germany, the 1,200 page-long classified document drafted behind the nondescript walls of the Julius Leber Barracks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025
It was so wrong that such an ordinary person in a nondescript dress and a cotton scarf around her forehead was in the middle of all this.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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