unpolished

Example Sentences

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Spare guitar chords give way to a female voice that sounds unpolished but beautiful: “I want to lay with you/ In an open field/ Where yellow flowers are suns of Earth.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

On a conference call last April, an ad agency partner began presenting unpolished AI-generated images to make a point: Artificial intelligence wasn’t ready to take center stage in advertising.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

"He's an unpolished diamond, but one worth taking a punt on because the finer details and tactical understanding can be improved by Pep Guardiola. Forty million euros could look like peanuts in a decade's time."

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2025

Fankam Mendjiadeu shot 52% from the field as a rookie, but at this stage of her career she’s offensively unpolished and hasn’t developed a reliable shot outside the paint.

From Seattle Times • May 12, 2024

As everywhere else in the world, the archaeological record in East Asia for most of human history reveals only the debris of hunter-gatherers using unpolished stone tools and lacking pottery.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond