How To Use Unpretending In A Sentence
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He was plainly and unpretendingly dressed in a suit of dark gray, and I stepped right up to him and said: "Mr. President, is this you?
Sunshine and Shadow of Slave Life. Reminiscences As Told by Isaac D. Williams to "Tege"
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While Mrs. Vesey and Miss Halcombe were richly clad (each in the manner most becoming to her age), the first in silver-grey, and the second in that delicate primrose-yellow colour which matches so well with a dark complexion and black hair, Miss Fairlie was unpretendingly and almost poorly dressed in plain white muslin.
The Woman in White
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She created a ‘cottage-home, plain and unpretending.’
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Employed with collateral means calculated to shake the nerves and excite the imagination, mesmerism causes the same variety of convulsive and violent seizures which extremes of fanatical frenzy excite; when it is employed in a gentle form and manner, with accessaries that only soothe and tranquillise, the most plain and unpretending form of trance quietly steps upon the scene.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847
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Morris described it as ‘unobtrusive, quiet and retiring, without being shy, humble and homely in its deportment and habits, sober and unpretending in its dress.’
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He journeyed to Washington, so unpretendingly, so carefully, saying no harsh word; full of love for all the people of his vast domain.
The Nation's Sacrifice
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Fairlie was unpretendingly and almost poorly dressed in plain white muslin.
The Woman in White
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The ossified ‘bloom’ which ‘Nothing Poem’ offers as an icon of hope, defines the extraordinary spiritual demands exerted by Capildeo's book: ‘unkind and / unpretending, / at each point seeming limitless, grained and ablaze.’
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He was an uneducated man, a plain unpretending plodding man,’ a neighbor remembered; one who ‘attended to his work, peaceable - quiet and good natured.’
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My mission is to work on unpretendingly and without troubling myself about advancement.
Letters
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The work is done so silently and unpretendingly that few but those engaged in it know how great are its effects.
Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City
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What then were her feelings when the rider, who dismounted from his little hackney as unpretendingly as did her husband in the twilight court, proved to have my Lord's long beard and narrow face!
Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland
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The slender mitella, or fringe-cup, or false sanicle – one does not like a false name for a flower – hangs its tiny white cups at intervals on a tall, slender, two-leaved stalk; a pretty, unpretending little thing, which scatters its black seeds very early in the season.
Rural Hours
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Mr. Jarvie's, whose dinner hour was now approaching, I stopped at a small unpretending shop, the sign of which intimated the indweller to be Christopher Neilson, surgeon and apothecary.
Rob Roy
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Its style was unpretending, its ideas simple, its tone unassuming, its sentiments unexaggerated.
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He merely said, that he wanted to speak a few words to you in the morning," she said unpretendingly, then going towards the door, she looked over her shoulder, and added, in such an artful, careless tone,
Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense
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While Mrs Vesey and Miss Halcombe were richly clad (each in the manner most becoming to her age), the first in silver-grey, and the second in that delicate primrose-yellow colour which matches so well with a dark complexion and black hair, Miss Fairlie was unpretendingly and almost poorly dressed in plain white muslin.
The Woman in White
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With heart and hand, Our country's cause defending, We'll meet the foe, With valor unpretending.
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Morris described it as ‘unobtrusive, quiet and retiring, without being shy, humble and homely in its deportment and habits, sober and unpretending in its dress.’
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He seemed solitary; his manner was very unpretending - too simple to be termed affable; rather timid than proud: he did not condescend to their society - he seemed glad of it.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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The Coles had been settled some years in Highbury, and were very good sort of people-friendly, liberal, and unpretending; but, on the other hand, they were of low origin, in trade, and only moderately genteel.
