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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Peter, the younger of their two sons, went to private schools, where he was bullied and unhappy.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2022
• Some of the ghost quitters are unhappy and would love for nothing more than to leave, but are afraid of the attendant risks.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 4 Aug. 2022
• Were there no signs that Blixa was unhappy before the email arrived?
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2022
• But many rank and file union members were unhappy with the offer, which fell short of the 40% raise and pension changes that the union was seeking.
  — Russell Lewis, NPR, 13 Sep. 2024
• Sadly, the ending is an unhappy one for every snake the team finds.
  — Longreads, 25 Oct. 2024
• Nor do voters unhappy with the last four years know how the next four would be any different.
  — Douglas Schoen, Orange County Register, 11 Oct. 2024
• Ely was not unhappy when the series ended in March 1968.
  — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2024
• The answer is that immigrants and minorities, particularly working-class ones, are unhappy with the economy and much else.
  — Basel Touchan, TIME, 22 Nov. 2024
• The ethics of moving to Canada for those unhappy with incoming U.S. political leadership is debatable, of course.
  — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024