Example Sentences

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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

The exhibition’s purported theme unhappily narrows perspectives on the assembled works of art, rather than opening wide their myriad readings.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 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

“It’s certainly a setback,” my mother said unhappily.

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen