unhappily

Example Sentences

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Even being unhappily married, I was still part of the club.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

Unbeknown to all three, an unhappily married neighbor has become obsessed with Sophie and begun spying on her.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

For readers familiar with Sir Salman's Midnight's Children, for which he won the Booker Prize, this upcoming work revisits the Bombay neighbourhood of that book, where "a magical musician is unhappily married to a multibillionaire".

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2025

Vance wouldn't even apologize to the unhappily infertile.

From Salon • Aug. 5, 2024

“In the whole history of the Foundation, no grant had ever been made for a destructive purpose,” Fosdick observed unhappily in the foundation’s official history, “let alone such a lethal weapon as this.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik