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

An exception, unhappily, is Taraji P. Henson, along with Cedric the Entertainer one of the marquee names.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 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

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

“What do you want to go and cause this trouble for?” he asked unhappily.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols