unpretending

Example Sentences

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He runs and swings freely and smiles an unpretending Nebraska smile.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 6, 2017

In fact nothing could well be more simple — more utterly unpretending than this cottage.

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2011

In Brooklyn Rev. Henry H. Proctor is the unpretending pastor of an unpretentious little Congregational Church and its equally unpretentious membership.

From Time Magazine Archive

Already it has drawn forth numerous authors, describing the results of their experience, in nearly every variety of style, from the unpretending statement of every-day occurrences, to the more ambitious attempts of graphic descriptive composition.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various

It was a very unpretending hostel, something wherein cottage and farmhouse were blended, and only recognizable as a place of entertainment by a tin trout suspended over the doorway, with the modest inscription underneath,—"Fisherman's Home."

From Barrington Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James