How to Use nondescript in a Sentence

nondescript

adjective
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  • I work in one of the nondescript office buildings downtown.
  • Their performance was disappointingly nondescript.
  • The door of a nondescript van slid open and a head popped out.
    — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Events play out in an open space, out back of the nondescript home.
    — Christopher Smith, Orange County Register, 30 Apr. 2024
  • The glass jar and black-and-white label are both fairly nondescript, but the scents spill the tea.
    — Mandy Shunnarah, Them, 26 Nov. 2024
  • At first glance, the theme of the picture might seem to be merely a snowy day in the outskirts of a nondescript town in the Lowlands.
    — Keith Christiansen, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Perhaps the single most nondescript team in the game in 2021.
    — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Yet the Gateway’s small buildings were, for the most part, a rather nondescript lot.
    — Larry Millett, Star Tribune, 11 Sep. 2020
  • This work of art framed the room and made a tiny, nondescript space into a jewel box!
    — Elizabeth Pash, House Beautiful, 28 Apr. 2021
  • The cell, known as Talon Anvil, worked out of nondescript offices in Iraq and Syria.
    — Grayson Quay, The Week, 12 Dec. 2021
  • By the end, Lucia, her nondescript Rust Belt town and the audience were all in pieces.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The foundry is in a nondescript brick building alongside a busy road about four miles from PNC Park.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2022
  • The truck that Stalks found to get started was a nondescript moving van.
    — Ian McNulty, NOLA.com, 3 Sep. 2020
  • But through the nondescript doors is a lounge with booth, cocktail and bar seating.
    — Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Even the fun of seeing New Orleans on-screen is muted by the fact that the film is set in a nondescript Texas city.
    — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Adding to this sense of mystery is the moth’s tiny size and nondescript appearance.
    — Rina Diane Caballar, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Putin didn’t like the fact that airplanes can be tracked, preferring the stealth of a nondescript train car, Karakulov said.
    — Erika Kinetz, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The rooftop of a nondescript office block is the setting for this restaurant belonging to the founders of Dsquared2.
    — Julia Buckley, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2021
  • The Colts drafted a lot of nondescript defensive backs in the second round.
    — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Apr. 2022
  • What this team needs is not a nondescript furball in a Christmas-tree sweater.
    — Star Tribune, 29 May 2021
  • The home of Judge Judy and Mad Men reruns is saddled with a nondescript, uninspired bore of an acronymic name.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Our talk was in a nondescript room — a streak of purple on the side of Molina’s hair was by far the most colorful thing there.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
  • In spite of the takedowns, a vast archive of Crimo’s videos still remained available on a nondescript Blogspot as of press time.
    — Kat Bouza, Rolling Stone, 5 July 2022
  • The group soon stumbles into a nondescript room where a board game is propped, as if it’s been waiting just for them.
    — WIRED, 16 June 2023
  • The nondescript one-story warehouse sits just off a busy street south of downtown.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The Paint Shop was just that, a nondescript building with one crumbling brick wall, before the Deans bought and repaired it.
    — Michelle Matthews | Mmatthews@al.com, al, 12 May 2020
  • For the most part, the charger is a nondescript surge-protector-style charging block.
    — WIRED, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Those who make their way to the nondescript building open a door, walk down a hall and step into a small, windowless room.
    — Thallman, oregonlive, 25 Apr. 2023
  • As the runners came around the final turn, a nondescript miler named Fermin Cacho was in the lead.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 July 2021
  • From the outside, the museum is nondescript, a bland gray structure that wouldn’t look out of place in an office block.
    — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 27 Sep. 2024

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