How to Use unfortunately in a Sentence

unfortunately

adverb
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  • 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
  • The scammers, unfortunately, know where to find us and how to push all the right buttons.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The full-scale war was a huge shock but unfortunately not a big surprise for us.
    — Nonna Stefanova, CNN, 11 Oct. 2022
  • There might be others of you who know me from — unfortunately — the tabloids.
    — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 17 Jan. 2024
  • And unfortunately, we are now left with a big void in the startup ecosystem.
    — Ben Lewis, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2023
  • More Democrats, unfortunately for him, don't want Biden to win.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 14 May 2023
  • While those pans are unfortunately not on sale for Prime Day.
    — Tiffany Hopkins, Bon Appétit, 10 Oct. 2023
  • In the world of The Kingdom, those endowed with the most power are, unfortunately, most likely to exploit it.
    — Elizabeth Alsop, The Atlantic, 28 Nov. 2022
  • While the supply will be better, unfortunately, the prices will not.
    — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 19 Nov. 2022
  • She’s unfortunately hampered by the fact that Dan is no longer the only character who doesn’t want to be there.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Many women did for so many years, and unfortunately a lot of women are having to do that same thing again now.
    — Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Dec. 2022
  • This, unfortunately, isn’t the first time Marvel Snap’s tried to gouge its players.
    — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 10 Jan. 2023
  • This, unfortunately, is a problem as common to the entire Like a Dragon series as the rest of the game’s features.
    — Reid McCarter, WIRED, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The same princess who, unfortunately, is also the sister of the woman Franz is supposed to marry.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 6 Oct. 2022
  • So those two teams, the other two teams have to face each other unfortunately, that’s going to be a tough first round matchup for anybody.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Free is a funny word, and unfortunately, one that is packed with tradeoffs.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 11 May 2023
  • Head illustrates how the times have changed yet also, unfortunately, remain in the past as shown through the BLM movement.
    — Sun Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2023
  • But unfortunately, the white man can debase himself to the condition of the Negro.
    — Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
  • There are few precedents, and, unfortunately, many of those are also Black men.
    — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2023
  • This is, unfortunately, just a small sampling of the fighting-prone players who have died at an early age.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The 760-area code dominance of Olave, unfortunately, was not much reprised.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2023
  • But unfortunately, this artist had the habit of taking 15 percent.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2023
  • And, unfortunately, some of them are dates that are very negative.
    — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 22 Feb. 2023
  • So, unfortunately, a hard landing is much more likely than a soft landing in the U.S. and most other advanced economies.
    — Nouriel Roubini, Time, 13 Oct. 2022
  • But, unfortunately, the world has not made the question less relevant.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 13 May 2023
  • But during one of his pitches, a reported curveball nonetheless, a bird flew right through the path of the ball, and unfortunately, was hit midair.
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 17 May 2023
  • Yet unfortunately for the Rockets, a large portion of Green's best efforts come within the confines of the Toyota Center.
    — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 8 Mar. 2023
  • As for whether or not Brightcliffe is a real place, unfortunately the answer is no.
    — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Their time is almost up, unfortunately, but their egg sacs overwinter and hatch in spring.
    — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Vida is a response, unfortunately, to many people who passed away, people very close to me.
    — Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 18 Jan. 2024

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