unhappily

Example Sentences

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As one dinner began, my family unhappily discovered I’d poked a hole in the crust of a loaf of bread and hollowed out its soft insides for my own enjoyment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

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

On an afternoon in late January, inside the unmarked door at Freedom Home, Favor was dealing unhappily with the thing that most annoyed him: in his words, “the humans.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 24, 2024

Merry bowed and went away unhappily, and stared at the lines of horsemen.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien