Sentence example with the word 'regretful'

regretful

apologetic, bilked, conscience-stricken, dashed, dissatisfied, ill done-by, penitent, sad, self-flagellating, shamefast, soured

Definition adj. feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone

Last update: September 26, 2015


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But they've been very scarce for a few years and we usually have to be content with elephants or buffaloes, answered the creature, in a regretful tone.   [Please select]

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I'm only regretful that you have let me place you in an uncomfortable position.'   [Please select]

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It made me regretful of my thoughtless answer, but oddly happy for a moment.   [Please select]

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‘No more milk, my lord,’ observed Watkins in a regretful tone.   [Please select]

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‘It would have been much better, so much better,’ he repeated, with a curiously regretful intonation.   [Please select]

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"She is not my mother," repudiated Lady Caroline angrily; and her anger sounded like the regretful wail of a melodious orphan.   [Please select]

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But one cannot help feeling regretful that the custom is not growing more rapidly.   [Please select]

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For only a minute longer did Pollyanna watch her fascinating "Red Sea," then, with a regretful backward glance, she turned away.   [Please select]

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I continued also the wish to be with you, and experienced a strange, regretful consciousness of some barrier dividing us.   [Please select]

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He bade a regretful farewell to Charleston, which had taken him to its heart, and turned his face to this new place, much smaller, and, as yet, without fame.   [Please select]

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