How to Use unfortunately in a Sentence

unfortunately

adverb

• Our awards program evaluates wine lists, not restaurants as a whole. While we assume the level of food and service will be commensurate with the quality of the wine lists submitted by award winners, this unfortunately is not always true.
  — Wine Spectator, 31 Aug. 2008
• And there were no deaths in the group that got the drug and ate, unfortunately in the group that got the placebo.
  — USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2021
• The coney was split and slapped on the grill, but unfortunately was only lukewarm by the time it was served to us.
  — cleveland, 19 July 2022
• The scammers, unfortunately, know where to find us and how to push all the right buttons.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 16 Nov. 2022
• And then Jerome on that great -- had a couple great runs and then lost the ball unfortunately there in that play.
  — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 13 Aug. 2022
• The details unfortunately were worked out with a subset of the folks who have to sign off on it.
  — Ralph D. Russo, chicagotribune.com, 22 Aug. 2021
• The full-scale war was a huge shock but unfortunately not a big surprise for us.
  — Nonna Stefanova, CNN, 11 Oct. 2022
• She was born and raised there, and unfortunately that's where she was killed.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 28 July 2022
• We, unfortunately, were forced to move the UK/EU tour dates to 2023 due to the pandemic.
  — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 31 Jan. 2022
• There was a chance of having a real good game, and unfortunately that was not the case.
  — Frank Dell'apa, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2022
• Only one of them—unfortunately, that would be the GOP—had a plan.
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 7 July 2022
• And unfortunately, that's the way a lot of people are choosing to do this.
  — CBS News, 14 Nov. 2021
• There might be others of you who know me from — unfortunately — the tabloids.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 17 Jan. 2024
• On the islands, unfortunately, right-sized rocks are thin on the ground.
  — Taras Grescoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2022
• But the film doesn’t, unfortunately, stay in this realm.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2022
• But unfortunately, there can be too much of a good thing.
  — Audrey Noble, Vogue, 26 Sep. 2024
• And the answer, unfortunately, is yes — at least for many kinds (even the best skin-care products).
  — Marci Robin, Allure, 8 Mar. 2022
• Some girls shut down and don't want to talk about their emotions, and, unfortunately, that doesn't work for the camera.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2021
• There are a lot of heavy hearts over at The Castle, and unfortunately there is no blueprint, no X’s and O’s, on how to fix them.
  — Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 22 June 2022
• And unfortunately, we are now left with a big void in the startup ecosystem.
  — Ben Lewis, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2023
• Billie seems to be very happy with the switch up, but unfortunately, some of her fans aren't as pleased.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 11 Aug. 2021
• A little of Janette goes a long way and unfortunately Wilson, so smart in guiding the rest of this film, doesn’t know when to cut.
  — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 14 Sep. 2024
• Such a mess has, unfortunately, become par for the course in the CDC’s handling of the pandemic.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2022
• Warning shots unfortunately had to be fired there too to keep the bigger mob back.
  — Greg Palkot, Fox News, 20 Aug. 2021
• More Democrats, unfortunately for him, don't want Biden to win.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 14 May 2023
• Which unfortunately is very rare and maybe even unheard of in film.
  — Alissa Simon, Variety, 2 Sep. 2022
• While those pans are unfortunately not on sale for Prime Day.
  — Tiffany Hopkins, Bon Appétit, 10 Oct. 2023
• To the moments of winning the Super Bowl, to the moment of not winning it, unfortunately.
  — Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 17 Sep. 2021
• And then, unfortunately, my mental health declined quite a lot.
  — David Chiu, People.com, 7 Dec. 2024
• The family qualified for this program, but unfortunately, there are more people in need than homes to shelter them, officials agree.
  — Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 17 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 26 Feb 2025