regretful

How To Use regretful In A Sentence

• ‘He apologised and was really regretful even though he was not involved in the actual attack,’ he said.
• We had quite a useful meeting but regretfully at that stage the damage had been done.
• There is, regretfully, no space in this article to examine all these issues.
• I'm thankful for what it's given me, and regretful for what it's taken.
• The point is that it is not possible, regretfully, in the world in which we live, for us to guarantee anyone's safety, civilian or military.
• Surprisingly, she didn't feel nervous, or regretful about her actions. ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
• But regretfully, it is only a short visit for him as he leaves here on Sunday, to catch the plane to Vancouver where he has another showing.
• Kent the narrator is wise to the flaws of his younger self, if not exactly regretful.
• I stood inthralled until, even as he was talking, the clock struck three, when he rose up, and moving slowly across the floor, barely visible, murmured regretfully that he must be off, with which he faded away down the back stairs. Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others
• In the first month of his new program, ever-aware Gandolo imprisoned the matriarchal Rotomor Gang and the triplet harridan sisters that commanded it, hung the notorious filcher Scynod of the Prehensile Feet, and chased a boisterous company of apes-turned-highwaymen from the Regretful Tomb Way all the way across the river Snat. GANDOLO OF THE WATCHFUL EYE • by Bill Ward