Sentence examples for although disappointingly from inspiring English sources
The phrase "although disappointingly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to introduce a contrast or an unexpected outcome that is disappointing in nature.
Example: "The event was well-organized, although disappointingly, the turnout was much lower than expected."
Alternatives: "even though it was disappointing" or "despite the disappointment".
Many a romance is said to have begun on the dance floor, although disappointingly, I have not had this experience.
It is about a northern working-class boy overcoming the odds to become successful in the face of mockery and scepticism (although, disappointingly, Prescott didn't go on to be a ballet dancer in a feather tutu).
The Northerner is particularly looking forward to Granny Turismo, three ladies on souped-up motorised shopping trolleys, on 1st July, although disappointingly there is no mention of a magic carpet, which surely would have been a more fitting mode of transport.
Although, disappointingly, spontaneous stripteases do not seem to have been a feature of his own find, Finkel's account of how he came by the tablet – featuring as it does an enigmatic collector who once starred as Doughnut in the 1970s children's show Here Come the Double Deckers – is wryly and entertainingly told.
Similarly in the morning the house "turns itself on, as it has every morning since the family had it retrofitted with the Smart House system of wiring five years ago" – although disappointingly this turns out to mean turning the heating and hot water on, which my house can do, and starting up the coffee machine and oven by themselves – surely a disaster waiting to happen.
The research project, if chosen and carried out carefully, can be very rewarding although, disappointingly, only a third of the projects went to completion.
It was from him that Webb inherited his passion for cooking, although, rather disappointingly, he chooses as his signature dish something as mainstream as a deluxe burger.
The broadcasters are now proposing that seven representatives stand behind podiums in what is being called "the Borgen Scenario", although rather disappointingly they won't all be made to speak Danish.
Chic turn the West Holts field into an open-air disco, delivering million-selling hits with the regularity of a jukebox, including ones that guitarist Nile Rodgers made with the likes of Diana Ross and David Bowie, although not, disappointingly, Daft Punk's Get Lucky.
Such a tiny amount belittled our efforts, and grouped our software with the "pull-my-finger" apps that are the scourge of iTunes, but which are, for now at least, remarkably (although spectacularly disappointingly) successful.
Perhaps inevitably given the publication, although still disappointingly, the article quickly derails into a vintage slice of old white man ranting about safe spaces.
