How to Use unhappy in a Sentence

unhappy

adjective
  • The movie's hero meets an unhappy fate.
  • For three unhappy days we were all stuck in the house because of the blizzard.
  • I can see that he's unhappy, but I don't know why.
  • I've never seen her looking so unhappy.
  • Because in the end, a lot of kids quit and were unhappy.
    Scott M. Reid, Orange County Register, 18 May 2024
  • If your plants look unhappy, flush the soil and switch the water source.
    Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Aug. 2024
  • The caller was unhappy about the noise, as well as the exhaust.
    John Benson, cleveland, 28 June 2022
  • The ones who were burned out, stressed, and unhappy, with no relief in sight.
    Yvonne McBride, Essence, 26 Sep. 2022
  • At port, the crew waits on shore to see them off, but inside, Glenn checks in with the unhappy guests first.
    Emma Soren, Vulture, 31 Dec. 2024
  • If the case goes to Trial one side will be very unhappy.
    Douglas I. Leifert, Sun Sentinel, 26 June 2024
  • And seven in 10 are unhappy with the way things are going in the country.
    Jennifer De Pinto, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The simplest way to be unhappy is to do work that does not excite you in any way.
    Matt Mayberry, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Winnie doesn’t know about the first part and is unhappy about the second.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The next day, a very unhappy Joseph Murray called Frances again.
    Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2024
  • So a lot of people were quite unhappy with this project.
    Carol Off, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022
  • If the reports are true, the NFL is unhappy with Eminem right now.
    oregonlive, 13 Feb. 2022
  • Gates was unhappy with the last three minutes, where CSU was outscored 11-3.
    Terry Pluto, cleveland, 11 Nov. 2021
  • At least one of those tribes is unhappy with what the states proposed and plans to submit its own plan.
    Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 6 Mar. 2024
  • And as messy and sometimes as unhappy as the next person.
    Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2022
  • In the first few years of OpenAI, Musk grew unhappy with the company.
    Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The Kremlin, unhappy that Ukraine is moving too close to the West and Nato.
    ABC News, 12 Dec. 2021
  • Some were unhappy with the bill, but voted to keep it moving.
    Kaitlin Lange, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Feb. 2022
  • But many are unhappy with the offer and the conditions attached to it.
    Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 10 Jan. 2023
  • While most of the crowd was dancing and smiling, there always seemed to be one or two people in the back of the bar, arms crossed and unhappy.
    Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Marriages, here, are unhappy — the ones that last — and friendships frayed.
    Daniel D'addario, Variety, 9 Dec. 2021
  • What about all the folks who bought a Tesla Model S or X with the yoke-style setup and are unhappy with it?
    Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 6 Jan. 2023
  • One of the customers was unhappy with this, and became irate and began yelling at the teller.
    cleveland, 16 June 2022
  • Though the film was a success, Houston was unhappy on set.
    People Staff, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Despite his close relationship with Trump, Elon Musk is unhappy about tariffs, which stand to hurt the business empire of the world’s richest man.
    Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • There have even been reports of police being called to deal with the rowdy behavior, not to mention some theater employees who are unhappy about the cleanup required.
    Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2025

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