How to Use unfortunately in a Sentence

unfortunately

adverb

• Our awards program evaluates wine lists, not restaurants as a whole. While we assume the level of food and service will be commensurate with the quality of the wine lists submitted by award winners, this unfortunately is not always true.
  — Wine Spectator, 31 Aug. 2008
• The coney was split and slapped on the grill, but unfortunately was only lukewarm by the time it was served to us.
  — cleveland, 19 July 2022
• The scammers, unfortunately, know where to find us and how to push all the right buttons.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 16 Nov. 2022
• And then Jerome on that great -- had a couple great runs and then lost the ball unfortunately there in that play.
  — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 13 Aug. 2022
• The full-scale war was a huge shock but unfortunately not a big surprise for us.
  — Nonna Stefanova, CNN, 11 Oct. 2022
• She was born and raised there, and unfortunately that's where she was killed.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 28 July 2022
• There was a chance of having a real good game, and unfortunately that was not the case.
  — Frank Dell'apa, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2022
• Only one of them—unfortunately, that would be the GOP—had a plan.
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 7 July 2022
• There might be others of you who know me from — unfortunately — the tabloids.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 17 Jan. 2024
• On the islands, unfortunately, right-sized rocks are thin on the ground.
  — Taras Grescoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2022
• But the film doesn’t, unfortunately, stay in this realm.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2022
• But unfortunately, there can be too much of a good thing.
  — Audrey Noble, Vogue, 26 Sep. 2024
• And the answer, unfortunately, is yes — at least for many kinds (even the best skin-care products).
  — Marci Robin, Allure, 8 Mar. 2022
• There are a lot of heavy hearts over at The Castle, and unfortunately there is no blueprint, no X’s and O’s, on how to fix them.
  — Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 22 June 2022
• And unfortunately, we are now left with a big void in the startup ecosystem.
  — Ben Lewis, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2023
• A little of Janette goes a long way and unfortunately Wilson, so smart in guiding the rest of this film, doesn’t know when to cut.
  — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 14 Sep. 2024
• More Democrats, unfortunately for him, don't want Biden to win.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 14 May 2023
• Which unfortunately is very rare and maybe even unheard of in film.
  — Alissa Simon, Variety, 2 Sep. 2022
• While those pans are unfortunately not on sale for Prime Day.
  — Tiffany Hopkins, Bon Appétit, 10 Oct. 2023
• But unfortunately for them (and Alyssa), Angela gets the second point and wins.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 15 Sep. 2022
• In the world of The Kingdom, those endowed with the most power are, unfortunately, most likely to exploit it.
  — Elizabeth Alsop, The Atlantic, 28 Nov. 2022
• Yeah, unfortunately there were just a lot of songs that could have made the circle of violence.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 3 May 2024
• That's just, unfortunately for some people, a part of the learning curve.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 1 Aug. 2022
• While the supply will be better, unfortunately, the prices will not.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 19 Nov. 2022
• While the cameo unfortunately wasn’t a Twenty88 reunion, the rapper confirmed back in February that a new album by the duo is in the works.
  — Lyndsey Havens, Billboard, 16 Apr. 2022
• She’s unfortunately hampered by the fact that Dan is no longer the only character who doesn’t want to be there.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 Jan. 2023
• Many women did for so many years, and unfortunately a lot of women are having to do that same thing again now.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Dec. 2022
• This, unfortunately, isn’t the first time Marvel Snap’s tried to gouge its players.
  — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 10 Jan. 2023
• This, unfortunately, is a problem as common to the entire Like a Dragon series as the rest of the game’s features.
  — Reid McCarter, WIRED, 12 Mar. 2023
• The spotlight is on us for the wrong reason, unfortunately.
  — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 16 May 2022

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024