UGLY in a Sentence

Learn UGLY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

158 example sentences for UGLY, such as:

1. That's an ugly corner down by the big elm.
2. They became sodden, stupid, ugly or obscene.
3. I find a lot of modern architecture very ugly.
4. There is no pot so ugly that it can't find a lid.
5. The situation in the streets was turning/growing ugly.

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 Meanings and Examples of UGLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ugly
 a.  offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; disagreeable aspect
Classic Sentence: (144 in 10 pages)
1  That's an ugly corner down by the big elm.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
2  She sank down on one of the little stools behind the counter of the booth and looked up and down the long hall which, until this afternoon, had been a bare and ugly drill room.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  In the center of the hall the huge ugly lamp, hanging from the ceiling by rusty chains, was completely transformed by twining ivy and wild grapevines that were already withering from the heat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  Rebelliously she leaned her elbows on the counter and looked at the crowd, flouting Mammy's oft-repeated admonition against leaning on elbows and making them ugly and wrinkled.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  The red scar which boiling fat had left last month was ugly and glaring.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
6  Her face went an ugly green, freckles suddenly standing out across her nose and her contorted mouth was like Gerald's in a killing rage.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
7  Their house was painfully ugly and bare and Scarlett hated to see Ashley living in the uncarpeted, uncurtained rooms.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
8  Scarlett's child was a girl, a small bald-headed mite, ugly as a hairless monkey and absurdly like Frank.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
9  No one except the doting father could see anything beautiful about her, but the neighbors were charitable enough to say that all ugly babies turned out pretty, eventually.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
10  There was something sinister about this camp with its ugly shacks, something which had not been here when Hugh Elsing had it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
11  They became sodden, stupid, ugly or obscene.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
12  He had a confused sense that she must have cost a great deal to make, that a great many dull and ugly people must, in some mysterious way, have been sacrificed to produce her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
13  The worst of it was that, in interpreting Miss Bart's state of mind, so many alternative readings were possible; and one of these, in Selden's troubled mind, took the ugly form suggested by Mrs. Fisher.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
14  He felt himself flung back on all the ugly uncertainties from which he thought he had cast loose forever.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 14
15  But Radney, the mate, was ugly as a mule; yet as hardy, as stubborn, as malicious.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
Example Sentence:
1  He looked at the ugly square buildings around him, and he did not like what he saw.
2  Children are sometimes understandably reluctant to wear glasses that are ugly or uncomfortable.
3  Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.
4  There is no pot so ugly that it can't find a lid.
5  Girls always look on themselves as proud princesses, with the exception of a small number of either extremely ugly or exceedingly smart ones.
6  Down deep in that ugly heap Marie Curie felt sure that her new element lay hidden.
7  I find a lot of modern architecture very ugly.
8  The situation in the streets was turning/growing ugly.
9  He's got the looks of a film star now, but he was a real ugly duckling as a child.
10  The demonstration turned ugly when a group of protesters started to throw bottles at the police.
11  "If it had grown up," she said to herself, "it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think."
12  Cinderella's ugly stepsisters had the odious habit of popping their zits in public.
13  The ugly frown liked to disfigure his normally pleasant face.
14  Your plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.