How To Use Regretfully In A Sentence
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In the end, regretfully, I chose none of them, preferring instead two books I read quite frequently, one for its astonishing use of language and the other for the haunting quietude of its tale.
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The portrait was actually taken for The Swan, in which Grace regretfully renounces her sexy tutor (Louis Jourdan) to marry an unalluring crown prince (Alec Guinness).
Grace Kelly: Style Icon
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Admittedly, it was a perfectly toned bubblegum album, designed for maximum pop, but one that regretfully lost its taste after only a few listens.
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Unfortunately, despite considerable enthusiasm shown towards the initial concept, audience turnout was poor and the plug was regretfully pulled.
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Sadly, he has not recovered and they regretfully announced his resignation on Monday.
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Villari regretfully concluded that the “only way an Italian can emancipate himself from this inferior state is to abandon all sense of national pride and to identify completely with the Americans.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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Complaining under his breath, he regretfully complied, finding himself down on one knee, genuflecting before Mistress Rai'chan.
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After pressing upon me dishes of every kind, he insists on my filling up all crevices with nuts and raisins, and after I have eaten, and eaten, he looks hurt, and says regretfully: “Missy sickee, no eatee.”
The Lady of the Decoration
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He regretfully stopped shoveling food onto his plate, and only ate half of what he put on there.
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Dario replied regretfully, hating to see his protégé suffering like this.
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I must regretfully decline your kind invitation
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The first of those teams were due to arrive in Sligo yesterday afternoon, but the organisers had to regretfully inform them that the event would not go ahead.
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After pressing upon me dishes of every kind, he insists on my filling up all crevices with nuts and raisins, and after I have eaten, and eaten, he looks hurt, and says regretfully: "Missy sickee, no eatee.
The Lady of the Decoration
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Regretfully my stock came entirely from behind the bar of my parents pub, something I'm sure I was punished for long ago and hopefully forgiven.
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Regretfully Ayub didn " t show satisfaction to Chinese assistance.
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The half hour has passed all too quickly and regretfully we board our boat and return to Freshwater Basin enriched by a unique experience and loaded with photographs to be developed.
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He sighed, more exhaustedly than regretfully, I thought.
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But, as he regretfully learned, his adoptees' public high schools were so bad that many of the kids dropped out, squandering an extraordinary opportunity.
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We will try to negotiate with the landowner and if that fails regretfully we may have to apply for a court injunction but this is very much a position of last resort.
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Regretfully only those who have booked places can be accommodated on this occasion
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Above the thunderous roaring of the engine, I regretfully made out Vitto's two departing words.
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For a second his mind turned regretfully to Martha: despite her temperamental behaviour, she would have come up with some saving strategy.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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There is, regretfully, no space in this article to examine all these issues.
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When we finally decided on an enforcement action, having had to very regretfully reach the conclusion that there was no other way, we did it properly.
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So he stood waist-deep in the grass and looked regretfully across the rolling savannah and the soft-swelling foothills to the Lion's Head, a massive peak of rock that upreared into the azure from the midmost centre of
A Message From the Bush
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Regretfully Silk let down the movable section of the abat-jour, retrieved his horsehair rope, and untied the rough limb that had served him so well.
Nightside The Long Sun
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We became close friends and he once told me that an early application for a grant to produce penicillin on a scale adequate for clinical trial had been turned down by a very high-up committee: wise old greyheads shook (or, as Florey said, perhaps merely wobbled) regretfully from side to side as they pronounced that the future of antibacterial therapy lay with synthetic organic chemicals such as sulphanilamide and not with medieval-sounding fungal and bacterial extractives which may have put them in mind of Macbeth, Act IV, Sc. 1.
A Better Mouse Trap
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Regretfully, the composer left little evidence of his intentions for the score, and the typescript has remained unpublished and unperformed.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Nicholas sighed regretfully; he hadn't meant to lose his temper like that.
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Of regretfully, adorably are starchless peradventure the pluviometer of wholesale constituent and fumigant subtly you let biparous english northward tune.
Rational Review
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It is encouraging sometimes to look at our possessions through other people's spectacles, and perhaps I may help some worker in a small field to see in what she calls her limitations, not a hedging in but an opening, by drawing the contrast from another point of view -- from that of one who is regretfully forced to give up almost all personal, individual work with the children and delegate to others that most delightful of tasks, because her library is so large and she has so much money to spend that her services are more needed in other directions.
Library Work with Children
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'I'm afraid not,' he said regretfully.
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He hustled R.V. Smethurst off stage rather like a chucker-out in a pub regretfully ejecting an old and respected customer, and starting paging G.G. Simmons.
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How an alcid from the Pacific Ocean ended up north Kent, at a nature reserve known as Oare Marshes to be exact, might never be known, but birders, to use a regretfully common description, are "flocking" to see the rarity.
10,000 Birds
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A hot-pot is in the oven, which I regretfully turn down because I'd already eaten lunch, however I do accept a cup of tea and a slice of her Christmas cake.
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‘Compromise was simply not possible,’ he declared, regretfully.
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The mate observed regretfully that he could not account for that young fellow's whims.
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Stubbes, regretfully concluding that his ideal punishment was unacceptable -- that convicted prostitutes should be "made to drinke a full draught of Moyses cuppe, that is, tast [e] of present death" -- went on to suggest the next best thing: branding, on the cheek or forehead, "to the end [that] honest and chast Christians might be discerned from the adulterous Children of Sathan.
Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Jessica A. Browner
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This, I regretfully, admit, is what happened with Jim Lahey's No Knead Bread.
Archive 2009-03-01
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He hustled R.V. Smethurst off stage rather like a chucker-out in a pub regretfully ejecting an old and respected customer, and starting paging G.G. Simmons.
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Sadly, he has not recovered and they regretfully announced his resignation on Monday.
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The days when you could recognise a person's origins by their rich and diverse regional accents are regretfully slipping away.
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In the end, regretfully, I chose none of them, preferring instead two books I read quite frequently, one for its astonishing use of language and the other for the haunting quietude of its tale.
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Due to the complexity of the process, regretfully, we cannot provide technical support for such attempts.
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But regretfully, we will not be catering to that audience because it's really a niche.
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Because of this, and the proximity of other Roman Catholic churches to Durrington, the decision was regretfully taken to close the church.
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Regretfully he kissed her forehead, extracted himself from her embrace and sent her on her way to a virtuous bed.
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There is, regretfully, no space in this article to examine all these issues.
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I was there with her at the party, but then stupidly, and very regretfully, I left.
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Regretfully, I must decline.
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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
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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.
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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.
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There is, regretfully, no space in this article to examine all these issues.
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Since then, we have regretfully picked up our beach towels and coolers and headed back to the cosmic parking lot.
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Michael had let go of my waist, I noticed, regretfully.
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(I hear that no one is turned away except, regretfully, one quite hefty character in a swirling kilt - but that's another story).
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She regretfully stepped out of the tub and towelled herself dry, winding the towel around her shoulder-length chestnut hair last.
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While the advent of TV may have eclipsed the romance of radio, as he puts it, much of the sheen and euphony one used to note and hear in yester-year's music is regretfully found absent in the present-day menu.
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She sighed regretfully and walked to her assigned desk.
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And, regretfully, it is extremely unlikely that we'll see him emerging from his shower a few months later, complaining about the awful dream he had last night.
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DeVine Law regretfully had to agree with a unanimous court that struck down medical malpractice non-economic damage caps tort reform as violative the "inviolate" right to a jury trial granted in the State Constitution.
The Minority Report -
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So he stood waist-deep in the grass and looked regretfully across the rolling savannah and the soft-swelling foothills to the Lion's Head, a massive peak of rock that upreared into the azure from the midmost centre of Guadalcanar, a landmark used for bearings by every coasting mariner, a mountain as yet untrod by the foot of a white man.
Chapter 23
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We had quite a useful meeting but regretfully at that stage the damage had been done.
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Regretfully, mounting costs have forced the museum to close.
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My answer to all of these questions is, regretfully, no.
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Regretfully, I know no soporific agent to make it all painless so that later on there is only a tiny scar on the skin that would remind one of the process.
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I sighed and regretfully pulled out a small black case that held a pair of glasses.
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Many of the Ballintubber players will know in their hearts that they did not grasp the opportunity on the day and regretfully experience has shown that such occasions as Intermediate Finals are rare enough.
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She sighed, and regretfully disentangled herself from Steve, who looked puzzled.
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The Fiddler's Green Festival Committee has regretfully announced that the Tommy Fleming concert scheduled for Wednesday July 23 has been cancelled.