How to Use unhappily in a Sentence

unhappily

adverb

• They were unhappily married for two years.
• That to me seems a heck of a lot better than living unhappily and in a state of limbo.
  — Jackie Pilossoph, chicagotribune.com, 26 Apr. 2017
• As the train pulled out of the station, screeching wheels drowned out the sound of a cat meowing unhappily.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2022
• The tutor laughed at the pair of them, sitting there at the table so unhappily, just because of maths.
  — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• Both Rothman and Rosen were unhappily married in the time between the war and their meeting in 1990.
  — Sarah Schreiber, Good Housekeeping, 11 Nov. 2016
• Brown spent nine years with the Steelers, being named to the Pro Bowl in seven of them, but his time there ended unhappily.
  — Ben Shpigel, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2019
• One of the many ironies here is that on the eve of the election the two sides were moving, not unhappily, toward an optimistic détente.
  — Gregory Krieg, CNN, 1 June 2017
• The unhappily married women who traveled to Sioux Falls did so in style.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New Republic, 28 June 2022
• Now, an unhappily married Jesse has written a novel about that night and is in Paris for the last stop of his European book tour.
  — Brian Smolensky, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2022
• Jay and Linda heard about a donkey housed unhappily an hour north, whose spouse likewise had died.
  — Jane Shore, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2020
• As long as a person is unhappily single, there must be something wrong.
  — Morgan Parker, ELLE, 4 June 2022
• Samir sits unhappily, wearing a suit the F.B.I. gave him, pretending to be rich and powerful.
  — Julian Joslin, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2021
• This is, unhappily, a lesson that needs to be relearned anew each generation, like the ravages of inflation, the risks of public debt, and the true price of war.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 18 Feb. 2022
• The last one came in the mid-1990s under Fed Chair Alan Greenspan, an episode that ended unhappily for many developing countries.
  — Paul Wiseman, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 May 2022
• When the Nazis ask Lelong for dresses for their wives and girlfriends, Dior objects but unhappily complies.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
• One breakthrough that’s been welcomed by the unhappily hirsute is laser hair removal.
  — Fiorella Valdesolo, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2017
• Looking unhappily at him, Yura took a half-empty pack of Astra cigarettes and a box of matches out of his pants pocket.
  — Vladimir Sorokin, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
• Her unhappily married parents divorced when Diana was 7, and she was sent to boarding school two years later.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2021
• According to legend, this dish was dreamed up by an unhappily married woman named Ezo who was trying to win over her mother-in-law via her stomach.
  — Lisa Morrow, CNN, 25 Mar. 2022
• Cruz stars as Clara, an unhappily married mother of three coping with mental health issues.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2022
• Set on the island of Brittany in the late 18th century, the French film brings together a young woman who’s unhappily betrothed and the female painter who’s been (secretly) hired to paint her portrait.
  — Sage Young, refinery29.com, 28 Feb. 2020
• The idea was that a gentleman could fly down to the Caribbean, unhappily married, and return home a few days later blissfully single.
  — Robert Goulder, Forbes, 18 June 2021
• After imbibing too much at a party, an unhappily single woman falls into bed with the fiance of her best friend.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
• Affleck and de Armas play the unhappily married Van Allens.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2022
• Autumn works in a supermarket with her cousin and is unhappily pregnant.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 8 Apr. 2020
• The story follows Bridget Everett’s Sam, who has unhappily returned to her tiny hometown in Kansas to nurse her dying sister.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• Yet when so many human beings embrace the destiny of becoming parents, whether happily or unhappily, what right does any one person have to refuse it?
  — Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 13 May 2018
• The number also assumes that most charging stations will be in good working order, something that EV drivers unhappily have not found.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Dec. 2022
• When this season began, Claire was unhappily married in Boston with dreary Frank.
  — Roxane Gay, Glamour, 10 Dec. 2017
• In her second photo, Simpson shows off her adorable dog Dixie, who’s (much more unhappily) receiving a shower.
  — Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 17 July 2023

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024