Example Sentences

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Thankfully, this lasts only for a brief second; unthankfully, it’s replaced by him spinning the sword around like a high-rpm drill bit when foot hits ball.

From Slate • Jun. 25, 2013

Ann subsided into one of the chairs not unthankfully.

From The Vision of Desire by Pedler, Margaret

"I must be thankful for small mercies, I suppose," said he, unthankfully.

From Mates at Billabong by Bruce, Mary Grant

She took it, and cast her eye over it, in such a careless way, as made it evident, that she had read it before: and then unthankfully tossed it into the window-seat before her.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 by Richardson, Samuel

Life here, and this present, have been depreciated unduly, untruly, and unthankfully.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke by Maclaren, Alexander