UNASSUMING in a Sentence

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Example sentences for UNASSUMING, such as:

1. He was unassuming and spoke little.
2. It was an unassuming shop, registered under the vague name of Drapery.
3. He is so unassuming that some people fail to realize how great a man he really is.
4. Father Mapple rose, and in a mild voice of unassuming authority ordered the scattered people to condense.

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 Meanings and Examples of UNASSUMING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
unassuming
 a.  modest; not bold or forward; not arrogant
Classic Sentence:
1  "This unassuming style promotes study, that's why we adopt it," returned Laurie, who certainly could not be accused of vanity, having voluntarily sacrificed a handsome curly crop to the demand for quarter-inch-long stubble.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
2  "He is perfectly well behaved, polite, and unassuming," said her uncle.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 43
3  She was less handsome than her brother; but there was sense and good humour in her face, and her manners were perfectly unassuming and gentle.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 44
4  It was an unassuming shop, registered under the vague name of Drapery.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE SISTERS
5  He was unassuming and spoke little.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A MOTHER
6  Yet, having already made his fortune in his own mind, he was so unassuming with it that I felt quite grateful to him for not being puffed up.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXII
7  Father Mapple rose, and in a mild voice of unassuming authority ordered the scattered people to condense.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
8  The rest of the money--a considerable sum for me, I decided to borrow from Anton Antonitch Syetotchkin, my immediate superior, an unassuming person, though grave and judicious.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
Example Sentence:
1  He is so unassuming that some people fail to realize how great a man he really is.