How to Use unpopular in a Sentence

unpopular

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  • I was unpopular in high school.
  • Recent conflicts have made him unpopular among the staff.
  • Her third album has been unpopular with fans.
  • Past fan protests forced the league to abandon unpopular Monday night games, the last of which was played in 2021.
    — James Ellingworth, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The time switch was so unpopular that the law was repealed the following year.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 6 Nov. 2022
  • In those places, Trump and Trumpism were not unpopular at all.
    — Alexander Burns, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Drastic cuts to those programs are unpopular, so there just isn’t that much to cut.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2023
  • In a small town, a dogged reporter is inevitably an unpopular one.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • Before the resurgence of all things the 1990s, this might have been an unpopular confession.
    — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 22 July 2023
  • In society today, kids are afraid to speak up and say things that are unpopular.
    — Christina Coulter, Fox News, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Only three students came, since the class was unpopular (three hundred pages of reading a week).
    — Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • Addison plays Padgett, a popular girl who takes on a bet to turn the most unpopular kid in school into the prom king.
    — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Argentina’s Congress could throw out parts of the draft law that are highly unpopular and could spark more street protests.
    — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Then Ruto rammed through an unpopular new tax to build more housing.
    — Declan Walsh, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2023
  • The decision from the Glazers to keep hold of the club will almost certainly anger fans, who have protested for years to oust the unpopular owners.
    — Giles Turner, Fortune Europe, 25 Dec. 2023
  • In 2016 voters took a chance on the brash outsider businessman against the unpopular Hillary Clinton.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The new law is hugely unpopular, with hundreds of Iowans showing up at the state Capitol to protest the bill as it was being debated.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 14 July 2023
  • And in 2019, the moderate Andy Beshear (narrowly) knocked out the unpopular Bevin from office.
    — Mark Murray, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The plan, according to the polls, was deeply unpopular with a majority of the Israeli public.
    — Anshel Pfeffer, CNN, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Rather than slink into the background, Jane stands up for those who feel different and unpopular.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The unpopular draft ended in 1973 as the U.S. military wound down its presence in Vietnam.
    — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 5 July 2023
  • Before that, Nolley was called for a third foul that was largely unpopular.
    — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 16 Mar. 2023
  • DeSantis signed the hugely unpopular six-week ban in April.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Predictably unpopular, the nude parades were short-lived.
    — S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2023
  • The focus of the protests is a tough new finance bill, signed into law by Mr. Ruto last month, that includes a deeply unpopular 1.5 percent levy on salaried workers for a housing and jobs fund.
    — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 20 July 2023
  • That argument will not work because Biden is so unpopular, Bolton says.
    — Josh Dawsey, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Sign up Even before the public knew that our state leaders were on the take from utilities and coal companies, H.B. 6 was wildly unpopular with Ohioans.
    — Sarah Stankorb, The New Republic, 29 June 2023
  • Polls show that the president is still unpopular with a solid majority of the country.
    — Matt Bai, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Recent polling shows both Trump and Biden are similarly unpopular among likely voters in the state.
    — Lawrence Andrea, Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Heading into the 2024 election, Biden remains an unpopular figure in the state, Feehery said, so Tester is likely to be weighed down sharing a ticket with him.
    — Hailey Bullis, Washington Examiner, 28 Dec. 2023

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