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

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

De Lussan relates with much unpretending pathos the feelings of himself and his Ulyssean friends upon once more landing in a friendly country.

From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume III (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter