How to use "unassuming" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "unassuming" in popular movie and book plots

  • Despite concerns, she decides to take the risk with Xiongzhou and the two begin an unassuming romance.  - Life Show
  • Although the Wing Chun master Ip Man is the most skilled martial artist in Foshan, he is unassuming and keeps a low profile.  - Ip Man (film)
  • Meanwhile, the real killer, unassuming ex-schoolteacher Walter Hoover (Ernest Thesiger), continues to prey on London women.  - They Drive by Night (1938 film)
  • His own paranoia leads him to a café in a dark, unassuming alley and encounters a charming young woman named Mimi.  - M (2007 film)
  • The hands belong to an unassuming and conservative physician named Julian.  - Peppermint Frappé
  • The unassuming Sister Snake, with the help of the priest, tailors seasonal fashion collections for dressing the statues of the Virgin Mary.  - Dark Habits
  • Richard Thayer, a shy, unassuming man (Valentino), is in love with a sheltered young woman, Elizabeth ("Beth") Lane (Myers).  - All Night (film)
  • Wataru Mitani is a quiet and unassuming fifth grader in Japan.  - Brave Story
  • An unassuming college professor develops a device that, once implanted in the brain, can manipulate objects through mind power.  - The Man with the Power (The Outer Limits)
  • She leads an ordinary, unassuming life as a waitress in a cafe until a small oni (De-mo) attacks her in an alley.  - Shadow Lady
  • Topaze (Peter Sellers) is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town who is honest to a fault.  - Mr. Topaze
  • François Pignon, an unassuming divorced man with a teenage son who ignores him, lives a quiet and unremarkable life.  - The Closet (2001 film)
  • Marlowe stands firm and, after playing cards all night with an unassuming detective, is released in order to "straighten things out" himself.  - The Little Sister
  • Nilo immediately executes the unassuming tenant with a silenced revolver and proceeds to casually walk out onto the square.  - Sorcerer (film)
  • Though a normally unassuming and cowardly young man, Ichi becomes homicidal and sexually aroused when enraged.  - Ichi the Killer (film)
  • To most adults, she's every parent's dream: obedient, well groomed, unassuming and compliant.  - The Bad Seed

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