unhappily

Example Sentences

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“Everyone thought they were getting these accelerated deductions and now they are unhappily discovering that maybe they aren’t.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025

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

Stationed unhappily in postwar Germany, he signed up for three years of stateside U.S.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2023

So, unhappily, Emperors of the Realm of Taste became a permanent feature on the Paradise Pickle labels.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy