UNHAPPY in a Sentence

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Their good friend saw that Marianne was unhappy, and felt that every thing was due to her which might make her at all less so.

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 Meanings and Examples of UNHAPPY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
unhappy
 a.  experiencing sadness, sorrow, or discontent
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Yet, although unhappy, he is not so utterly occupied by his own misery but that he interests himself deeply in the projects of others.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4
2  Elizabeth also wept and was unhappy, but hers also was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides but cannot tarnish its brightness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
3  The gentle manners and beauty of the cottagers greatly endeared them to me; when they were unhappy, I felt depressed; when they rejoiced, I sympathized in their joys.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
4  I was oppressed by fatigue and hunger and far too unhappy to enjoy the gentle breezes of evening or the prospect of the sun setting behind the stupendous mountains of Jura.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
5  A change indeed had taken place in me; my health, which had hitherto declined, was now much restored; and my spirits, when unchecked by the memory of my unhappy promise, rose proportionably.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
6  And yet you are still unhappy and still avoid our society.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
7  Gatsby got himself into a shadow and while Daisy and I talked looked conscientiously from one to the other of us with tense unhappy eyes.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
8  They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale--and yet they weren't unhappy either.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
9  The unhappy culprit sustained herself as best a woman might, under the heavy weight of a thousand unrelenting eyes, all fastened upon her, and concentrated at her bosom.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
10  Most unwilling was she to awaken from such a dream of felicity to comprehend all the unhappy truths which attended the affair; and for some time she refused to submit to them.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12
11  Their good friend saw that Marianne was unhappy, and felt that every thing was due to her which might make her at all less so.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30
12  It was nearly three years after this unhappy period before I returned to England.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
13  Elinor could not NOW be made unhappy by this behaviour.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34
14  She had been for three months her companion, was still under her care, and she was known to have been greatly injured, and long unhappy.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 43
15  It was an unhappy life that I lived; and its one dominant anxiety, towering over all its other anxieties, like a high mountain above a range of mountains, never disappeared from my view.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLVII
Example Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  To worry about tomorrow is to be unhappy today.
2  She's always snivelling about her unhappy childhood.
3  An unhappy home environment can affect a child's behaviour.
4  All happy families are like one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
5  Her marriage is in trouble and she is desperately unhappy.
6  Your thoughts, beliefs and choices determine, to a large extent, your state of being happy or unhappy.
7  She said she was unhappy, or words to that effect.
8  Society's obsession with sex has bred a generation of unhappy children.
9  Many things make us unhappy because "happiness" is not what we pursuit,but "more happier than others"instead.
10  No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
11  It is a curious paradox that professional comedians often have unhappy personal lives.
12  Her return to France ended a particularly unhappy chapter in her life.
13  I didn't realize you were so unhappy.
14  When I look back on those days I realize I was desperately unhappy.
15  Kate looks really unhappy - I'd better make sure she's all right.