ruefully

How To Use ruefully In A Sentence

• He gazed ruefully in the mirror at his greying locks.
• She shook her head, ruefully, at the plump, high-coloured face in the mirror, then went out to water the garden.
• Other times he would laugh humorlessly, shaking his head ruefully as he scribbled furiously upon his pad. The Monstrumologist
• Of course, he adds ruefully, it took him another eight months to get his head back together.
• Last year, a rep of the phone company ruefully admitted it was stretching the truth.
• I'm not much good for anything else,’ he added ruefully, hoping that an admission of his poor seamanship would mollify the other boy.
• Though the weather was cool and the night tempestuous, he had thrown aside his pea-jacket, with most of his disguise, and was sitting ruefully on his blanket, wiping, with one hand, the large drops of sweat from his forehead, and occasionally grasping his throat with the other, with a kind of convulsed mechanical movement. The Pilot
• In the revised edition (1992) of his book Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage, the sociologist Andrew Cherlin ruefully comments: If there were a truth-in-labeling law for books, the title of this edition should be something long and unwieldy like Cohabitation, Marriage, Divorce, More Dan Quayle Was Right
• She shook her head, ruefully, at the plump, high-coloured face in the mirror, then went out to water the garden.
• I finger-tipped the last crumbs of my wafer-thin slice of cake and put the plate down, ruefully, looking with some envy at Graham finishing the last of a huge man-sized chunk.