Example Sentences

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Alison Hamond finds herself in the unenviably position of being up against 20-time winners Ant and Dec for best presenter.

From BBC • Oct. 13, 2022

As an émigré, he finally found both the travel and the adventure he once dreamed of, although of an unenviably grim variety; Summerscale follows him, during World War I, from Gallipoli to the Somme.

From Slate • Jul. 22, 2016

The bully is instantly cowed; and by a few words to any of his school-associates who may be near, you can render him unenviably conspicuous among them for a week or two.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 53, March, 1862 by Various

However, alive he was; and most unenviably so!

From The Red Hell of Jupiter by Ernst, Paul

About this time certain gentlemen in Canada began to be unenviably known.

From The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth by Townsend, George Alfred