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Example sentences for "unpoetic"

Lexicographically close words:
unpleasantnesses; unpleasing; unploughed; unplowed; unplumbed; unpoetical; unpoisoned; unpolarized; unpolished; unpolitical
  1. That unpleasant and unpoetic fact shadowed life to her for the moment.

  2. One thing, among fifty, necessary to the full solution is, that they all employed poetry and poetic diction on unpoetic subjects, both characters and situations, especially in their comedy.

  3. There is something rude, strange, and unpoetic about him at first sight that is sure to give most readers of poetry a shock.

  4. He had not noted that an unpoetic person will occasionally go into a mild ecstasy over phrase or passage or verse in which a poet may see little or nothing.

  5. She turned her to her common work And unpoetic ways, Nor knew the rare, sweet note she struck Resounding to your praise, O Poet of our common nights, And of our care-worn days!

  6. Mr. Perkins, who was eating Mrs. Smithers's crisp, hot rolls with a very unpoetic appetite.

  7. Drenched and hungry, he felt himself better able to see the thing in sane and unpoetic light.

  8. Hughie came toward them, sturdy, middle-aged and unpoetic for all his head was under blossoms.

  9. But the younger one was too much affected to notice this unpoetic speech.

  10. This Inn affords a welcome retreat from two of the noisiest and most unpoetic thoroughfares in London,--Gray's Inn Road and Theobald's Road.

  11. In his stead is an unpoetic being, clad in all sorts of unpoetic clothing, and no two of them alike.

  12. In his preference for native themes and homely, unliterary treatment of seemingly unpoetic material he continued the work of the Pike County balladists.


  13. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unpoetic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arid; barren; common; commonplace; dry; dull; earthbound; flat; humdrum; infertile; insipid; literal; mundane; ordinary; pedestrian; plain; prosaic; prosy; staid; stolid; stuffy; tiresome; unimaginative; unimpassioned; uninspired; uninventive; unoriginal; unpoetical; unromantic; vapid