How To Use Unhelpfully In A Sentence

He's pulled to his feet and stands vacantly and unhelpfully behind the coffin as it seesaws up the steps, carried by the royal family, in a confusion of priests and cameramen.
The Minnesota Statute providing for vacancies in Senate seats unhelpfully defines ‘vacancy’ to mean ‘vacancy.’
Yet the notion of the thrusting career woman, starkly contrasted to the selfless home-maker, lurks unhelpfully in the background.
When he unhelpfully insisted on surviving, the multi-talented Borgias produced brother Cesare to strangle him in his sickbed.
It is, as a friend unhelpfully told me when I was about to direct it, ‘so good not even a director could mess it up’.

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`There aren't any doors that small in Fiddleford,' he said unhelpfully. TEN STEPS TO HAPPINESS
The fee has brought its own pressure to bear on a quiet young man already - perhaps unhelpfully - described as a superstar by his international manager.
Every time I backed the car off the drive, for instance, it became unhelpfully scared of the camber in the road.
`I don't know," Iris wobbled unhelpfully, and, returning to basics, asked plaintively again, `Where am I? TO HIS JUST DESSERTS
This week is full up with appointments and social engagements, I'm sure of it, but I can hardly remember any specifics, my diary unhelpfully empty.
he stood by unhelpfully while the house burned down
Days later, the Caricom summit's opening session heard Mr Manning's recriminations, unbecomingly and unhelpfully directed at former regional beneficiaries of T & T largesse.
Faulkner, on the other hand, was unhelpfully obscure.
Companies are still unhelpfully shy of hiring, preferring to squeeze yet more output from fewer people.
He's pulled to his feet and stands vacantly and unhelpfully behind the coffin as it see-saws up the steps, carried by the royal family, in a confusion of priests and cameramen.