How to Use unfortunately in a Sentence

unfortunately

adverb

• This would turn out to be true, but unfortunately, shock does not last.
  — Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
• She was born and raised there, and unfortunately that's where she was killed.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 28 July 2022
• Now he’s unfortunately been out for what, at least six months.
  — Elias Burke, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
• And, unfortunately, there's a gift and a curse that comes with that.
  — Katie Campione, PEOPLE.com, 5 July 2021
• Even that, unfortunately, may be too much to ask.
  — Daniel Alarcón, New Yorker, 4 June 2026
• The full-scale war was a huge shock but unfortunately not a big surprise for us.
  — Nonna Stefanova, CNN, 11 Oct. 2022
• But unfortunately there is always a bread line for those who haven’t learned to save.
  — Thomas Frank, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
• Which unfortunately is very rare and maybe even unheard of in film.
  — Alissa Simon, Variety, 2 Sep. 2022
• But unfortunately, this isn't helping you—or your pans—out in the long run.
  — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Mar. 2025
• There might be others of you who know me from — unfortunately — the tabloids.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 17 Jan. 2024
• Which, unfortunately, wasn’t enough to match the record pace of points the defense gives up.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 22 Oct. 2020
• At the moment, unfortunately, there's not much else that can be done.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 2 Apr. 2026
• And there were no deaths in the group that got the drug and ate, unfortunately in the group that got the placebo.
  — USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2021
• On the islands, unfortunately, right-sized rocks are thin on the ground.
  — Taras Grescoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2022
• The details unfortunately were worked out with a subset of the folks who have to sign off on it.
  — Ralph D. Russo, chicagotribune.com, 22 Aug. 2021
• There was a chance of having a real good game, and unfortunately that was not the case.
  — Frank Dell'apa, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2022
• While the laws may be clear, the practice is not, unfortunately.
  — Jennifer Jay Palumbo, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
• Warning shots unfortunately had to be fired there too to keep the bigger mob back.
  — Greg Palkot, Fox News, 20 Aug. 2021
• And unfortunately, many of us will have plenty of downtime this year to write and read cards.
  — Maria Ricapito, Marie Claire, 7 Dec. 2020
• And unfortunately, we are now left with a big void in the startup ecosystem.
  — Ben Lewis, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2023
• The scammers, unfortunately, know where to find us and how to push all the right buttons.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 16 Nov. 2022
• And unfortunately, that's the way a lot of people are choosing to do this.
  — CBS News, 14 Nov. 2021
• So in the end, unfortunately the consumer is the one that loses out.
  — Michael Rand, Star Tribune, 30 Mar. 2021
• The coney was split and slapped on the grill, but unfortunately was only lukewarm by the time it was served to us.
  — cleveland, 19 July 2022
• Billie seems to be very happy with the switch up, but unfortunately, some of her fans aren't as pleased.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 11 Aug. 2021
• What my broker said is not right now, unfortunately.
  — Tim McNicholas, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2026
• The first two of these were found out and, unfortunately for them, beheaded, but fake news had a strong grip.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
• But unfortunately, White people don't tend to be as open to it.
  — John Blake, CNN, 26 June 2021
• And unfortunately, and sadly enough, one of the boys who was 11 years old was shot in the back.
  — Jenna Sundel jason Lemon, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
• And the answer, unfortunately, is yes — at least for many kinds (even the best skin-care products).
  — Marci Robin, Allure, 8 Mar. 2022