How to Use unthreatening in a Sentence

unthreatening

adjective
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  • Thus far, the protests in Paris remain unthreatening to tourists.
    — Nikki Ekstein, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The second goal was set up by what seemed to be an unthreatening short corner from Carles to Nacho along the end line.
    — Frank Dell'apa, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The idea was to take something familiar and unthreatening — macaroni and cheese, say — and give it the Martha Stewart touch.
    — Pete Wells, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2022
  • With three minutes left in the first half, junior Anthony Ruiz got through to Warner on fourth-and-1 at the five-yard line, forcing him to chuck an unthreatening pass into the end zone.
    — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 7 Nov. 2021
  • Topping out at only 12 inches as adults and weighing less than two tubs of ice cream, with jet-black masks across their eyes and swollen bellies, meerkats look pretty unthreatening.
    — Mary Holland, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The strangers are an unthreatening family of survivors, but Roxanne refuses to take them in.
    — Nick Schager, EW.com, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The fact that Diane was brought into a Black-run firm as an unthreatening white face for deep-pocketed clients during the Trump era has never been more awkwardly plain.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2021
  • The prose swirls like mist, and his great insight appears to be little more than the unthreatening observation that life is complicated.
    — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Even as the music was being slowly tied to Communism (sometimes accurately), the demeanor of the genre was cheerful and unthreatening.
    — Sasha Frere-Jones, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2022
  • But, in the light of one man’s bloody and woefully misguided decision to invade a peaceful, unthreatening neighbor, the song is, once again, a plea for our common humanity.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 25 Mar. 2022
  • But, in the light of one man's bloody and woefully misguided decision to invade a peaceful, unthreatening neighbor, the song is, once again, a plea for our common humanity.
    — Chloe Melas, CNN, 6 Mar. 2022
  • Al is a stand-in for a model minority: an unthreatening, sexless, subservient presence in Riley's home.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2021
  • That leads to less contact with unfamiliar people, and makes even unthreatening acts seem harmful or ill-intended.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Aug. 2019
  • With factors like harsh winter air, too-hot showers, or a recent switch in your product lineup, there are a variety of seemingly unthreatening reasons that could be taking a toll on your skin.
    — Marianne Mychaskiw, Good Housekeeping, 16 Dec. 2020
  • At the end of the performance, the dance troupe removed their blindfolds, revealing the contortionists’ unthreatening appearance.
    — USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
  • The hostility tended to evaporate once corpsmen came to town in person, proved unthreatening, and began spending their wages at local diners, shops, and movie theatres.
    — Jim Lardner, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2021
  • King acknowledges that this excursion was possible by the accident of his being an amiable, unthreatening, middle-aged White guy.
    — Marianne Szegedy-Maszak, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023
  • In an attempt to project an unthreatening image, German authorities spent less than $2 million on security for the games and left guards unarmed, according to historians.
    — Aaron Boxerman, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022
  • As the world truly moved online, abstract fears were repeatedly met with, and answered by, specific, irresistible and unthreatening products and experiences.
    — John Herrman, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2017
  • Humans of both sexes have small, stubby canines—an unthreatening trait unique to hominins, including the earliest Ardipithecus specimens.
    — Blake Edgar, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2016
  • Under the careful, patient, and unthreatening questioning of McNally, Lavigne belittled Danny, calling him dumb and strange.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2021
  • Because inflation has been so unthreatening, the Federal Reserve has generally kept their feet off the economic brakes, even as unemployment has dropped to levels that, earlier in our history, pumped up inflation.
    — Jared Bernstein, chicagotribune.com, 4 Oct. 2019
  • To place it in ideological terms, a Marxisant progressive program was presented as a conservative one fronted by an amiable unthreatening liberal.
    — John O'Sullivan, National Review, 27 Aug. 2020

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