inconveniently

Example Sentences

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Then came the inconveniently timed rain, which suspended play for almost an hour and ground the fourth set to a halt in a fourth-set tie-break - with Norrie three points from victory.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2026

“The beautiful multi-coloured ‘northern lights’—flickering shafts of light that lit up the sky—would at times, inconveniently for the Allies, provide just what the U- boat commanders needed to locate the convoys through their periscopes.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

Palladino: Very inconveniently, right in the middle of when we were supposed to be there.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2025

Armrest cupholder: slightly inconveniently sized for my glass of rosé, which is exactly the level of problem one wants to encounter in life.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 2023

“I would have left at once, but I was inconveniently ill. In the cold my lungs have been slow to clear.”

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson