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Example sentences for "unpicturesque"

Lexicographically close words:
unperverted; unphilosophic; unphilosophical; unpick; unpicking; unpierced; unpigmented; unpinned; unpitied; unpitying
  1. Can the poor, unpicturesque thread of water that crawls in feeble attenuation between its shorn, unsightly banks be the wild, free brook whose voice was a continual song, every rod of whose amber and silver course was a picture?

  2. Constable of the "unpicturesque localities" does not thrill, and his pictures evoke a meditative rather than an ecstatic mood.

  3. Dark brown of hue, and not unpicturesque of contour, Boyle Farm stands amid effective masses of foliage, its sloping lawn dipping down to the channel formed by a miniature eyot which screens it somewhat from view.

  4. At the head of the main street stands the parish church, a not unpicturesque amalgam of the new and the old.

  5. The calculating mind wonders how many million feet of lumber there are in this unpicturesque barricade, and what gigantic forests have fallen to make this timber front to the sea.

  6. Weather-beaten and battered, they have been moored in a placid haven, even though it be on the unpicturesque coast of Essex.

  7. On their heads they wear a conical hat without a crown, formed of variously coloured beads, kept in shape by rings of rattan, and forming a fantastic but not unpicturesque headdress.

  8. The manse in which the poet was born has also disappeared, and a new, square, unpicturesque one been built upon the site.

  9. There you may deposit your mattrass and yourself in any one of a store of berths wrought into that most unpicturesque tufa, of which the exterior face constitutes the whole of the sea view of BaiƦ.

  10. As you approach the houses, you discern the not unpicturesque frontage of a little fishing town; but all is as revolting within as fair without.

  11. As to the Mare Mortuum, it is another rank, unwholesome, unpicturesque pond.

  12. Whatever the fascination of Rome may be it is not born of first impressions; the new quarters are painfully new and the streets are unpicturesque and the Tiber is dirty, muddy and ill-smelling.

  13. The whole town, a strange, but not unpicturesque mixture of old and new, is contained within the enclosure of these walls.

  14. The ruins have received just that degree of care which is consistent with the full preservation of their character; all unpicturesque rubbish which could obstruct the view is removed, without any attempt at repair or embellishment.

  15. There are but few buildings remaining of any note, and even its chief church is an unpicturesque structure standing at the west end of the town a little north of the quay and somewhat at the back of the High Street.

  16. In the immediate vicinity, however, a couple of miles or so westward stands Quarr Abbey, or what remains of the ancient foundation, plus a rather unpicturesque farmhouse built from the debris.

  17. Three miles or so away to the east is busy but unpicturesque Kidderminster, famed for its carpets.

  18. If it were not for the human life and bustle of London, it would be a very stupid place, with a heavy and dreary-monotony of unpicturesque streets.

  19. There is a little graveyard connected with the chapel, a most uninviting and unpicturesque square of ground, perhaps thirty or forty yards across, in the midst of back fronts of city buildings.

  20. Unlike the Swabish peasantry, the natives east of Munich appear as prosy and unpicturesque in dress as a Kansas homesteader.

  21. He did not pause again till he arrived opposite a long, low, gabled house, evidently one of the oldest buildings in the place, though brightly painted and whitewashed, to look as new and unpicturesque as possible.

  22. The Wissahickon, once the most delightful of wild and wayward streams, is now, for a considerable part of its way, imprisoned between banks as straight and unpicturesque as those of a canal.

  23. I never even saw a steam-plough; and I believe if I were to see one, I should think it a most unpicturesque object.

  24. It was a very pretty place in summer, not unpicturesque even at this bleak season; but Clarissa was thinking of lost Arden, and she looked at Mill Cottage with mournful unadmiring eyes.

  25. He remembered that there was a bronze something on the table that, in the irony of modern decorative taste, might hold ashes or matches, or anything of an unpicturesque character.

  26. No, not quite; but your flat and unpicturesque country looks so dull and unsociable at this time of year.

  27. A few steps lower we entered a dense crowd--a most unpicturesque miscellany of individuals, unclassically called, the London mob.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unpicturesque" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.