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.
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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 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 -
Though the film was a success, Houston was unhappy on set.
— People Staff, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 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 -
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 -
Almost all pirates failed and went on to meet an unhappy end.
— Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024 -
There is a tension in the data that says on the one hand, how many people want the job and, on the other hand, how unhappy drivers are with their pay.
— Richard Kestenbaum, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023 -
Joanne is unhappy because her career has been sidelined, and one of my old pieces was still in there.
— Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 27 July 2022 -
Hugo Urbina, who owns a pecan farm next to the Rio Grande, was unhappy with the constant foot traffic on his land, sometimes dozens of people a day.
— Edgar Sandoval, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2023 -
The premise here is that being unhappy is the price our species pays for intelligence.
— Amy Brady, Scientific American, 20 July 2022 -
At the same time, Fix the Court has been unhappy with the public having more information about its own finances.
— Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 25 Oct. 2024 -
Turkey has also long been unhappy about the strong Kurdish presence in northeast Syria near the Turkish border.
— Mostafa Salem, CNN, 23 Oct. 2024
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