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.
  • So there were a lot of unhappy campers with that.
    — Senior Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
  • If your snake plant is in a bright spot and unhappy, check the soil.
    — Lauren David, Southern Living, 6 May 2026
  • But few seemed to leave unhappy.
    — Jonathan Hawkins, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
  • When faced with an unhappy moment, the look on her face.
    — Lizzie Hyman, PEOPLE, 17 Jan. 2026
  • There were a lot of hardcore fans that were unhappy with the first movie.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2025
  • And a study found that high gas prices even make people feel unhappy.
    — Amy Myers Jaffe, The Conversation, 9 Mar. 2026
  • All of those things point to very, very unhappy public.
    — James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • The now-37-year-old wasn’t unhappy with her job.
    — Mike Winters, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2025
  • At the time, what stuck with me was how many of these books are about deeply unhappy people.
    — Literary Hub, 21 May 2026
  • There would be an unhappy outcome of the show itself to face too.
    — Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 10 June 2026
  • People are unhappy on a grand scale.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 3 May 2026
  • The simplest way to be unhappy is to do work that does not excite you in any way.
    — Matt Mayberry, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The caller was unhappy about the noise, as well as the exhaust.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 28 June 2022
  • When Hutch’s son gets into a brawl, dad is unhappy.
    — Mark Kennedy, Boston Herald, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Winnie doesn’t know about the first part and is unhappy about the second.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Most were unhappy with the draft opinion, voicing anger and fear.
    — Caroline Silva, ajc, 6 May 2022
  • But the tail end of Creedence was unhappy.
    — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Beckham caught wind of it and appeared to be unhappy.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Those changes can hurt public health and make people more unhappy.
    — Kelly Chen, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • Maybe all girls are alike, happy or unhappy, after all.
    — Lillian Fishman, New Yorker, 27 June 2026
  • On the left, a body whose inhabitant is unhappy with it in some way.
    — Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 3 July 2025
  • Some are silent but able to smile and laugh; others make no sound at all, but do not appear to be unhappy.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 15 May 2026
  • That could have been a tidy, if unhappy, conclusion.
    — Lori Waxman, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026

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