How To Use Ruefully In A Sentence
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He gazed ruefully in the mirror at his greying locks.
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She shook her head, ruefully, at the plump, high-coloured face in the mirror, then went out to water the garden.
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Other times he would laugh humorlessly, shaking his head ruefully as he scribbled furiously upon his pad.
The Monstrumologist
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Of course, he adds ruefully, it took him another eight months to get his head back together.
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Last year, a rep of the phone company ruefully admitted it was stretching the truth.
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I'm not much good for anything else,’ he added ruefully, hoping that an admission of his poor seamanship would mollify the other boy.
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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
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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
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She shook her head, ruefully, at the plump, high-coloured face in the mirror, then went out to water the garden.
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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.
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Obligation, she ruefully reflected, was a flimsy basis for creativity.
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He reiterated, as well, his devotion to non-violent principles, recalling ruefully that when Tibetans briefly resorted to political force in an uprising in the 1950s the result was "more suppression, more control, more rigidity" – and a half-million dead.
Dalai Lama Begins Visit
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Ashenden somewhat ruefully took out a number of notes and handed them to the Mexican.
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"And I missed another later because I didn't keep my composure, " said the young striker ruefully.
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Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan, the president ruefully noted after the Cuban fiasco.
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He sighed and ruefully gazed down the rocky mountainside to the glistening valley below.
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Disaster theorists will ruefully note that it has little to do with global warming.
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“Pratchett knows what the smart set say about him, and ruefully accepts that the kind of fetishistic following enjoyed by J K Rowling, whose sales he rivals, will never be his.”
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Jane promptly fell in love, though, as she ruefully told Betty, it was unclear if it was with the strapping six-foot-two-inch Leo or some “romantic idea” of life in the exotic Dutch East Indies.
A Covert Affair
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There were two starbases there, 18 at Hamal and 20 at gamma Arietis / Mesarthim; each was well provided with weaponry of its own and a large complement of starships, and Starbase 20 and its starship complement had the additional advantage of being staffed by the Mesarth, probably one of the most aggressive species in the Federation “except for humans,” Spock had once commented rather ruefully.
Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages
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We are reminded of Defoe's Moll Flanders, whose narrator ruefully recalls aspiring as a young maidservant to be a ‘Gentlewoman’ like a woman in her village who sits at her window dressed in fine clothes.
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Better to hide out in the bathroom, she recalled ruefully, than risk the public humiliation of eating solo.
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In a recent song, he ruefully concedes that his fans prefer the Shady persona.
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She thought ruefully of the cigarette butt, and of Johnny's small handful of apple tree leaves.
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He ruefully admitted that the great league in the country where the sport was born may no longer be "the gold standard" of hoops.
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She thought ruefully of the cigarette butt, and of Johnny's small handful of apple tree leaves.
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Gluttony, Orson Welles once said ruefully, is not a secret vice and unhappily the solution to weight loss is also blindingly obvious - whatever you eat, eat less.
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Those who have crossed him describe the experience ruefully.
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My command, Jon Snow reflected ruefully, as much a ruin as it is a stronghold.
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When we last heard from them, they were waxing ruefully nostalgic about their chemically wasted youth.
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I'm a gey auld-farrant-looking dear, I doubt," said Nanny, ruefully.
The Little Minister
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Brothers have been the ruin of Welsh princedoms through all ages," Cadfael observed ruefully.
His Disposition
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Heins,38 Roald commented ruefully in response, deciding wisely that to be placatory was the most sensible course of action.
Storyteller
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In his most famous stage work, he took a ruefully affectionate voyage around his father.
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Well, there was no denying that, Cory thought ruefully, assimilating the pale blonde hair, artfully coiffed, the im maculate maquillage, the close fitting dove-coloured trouser suit that showed off her mother's slim, toned figure to the best advantage, and the fur jacket draped casually round her shoulders.
Rome's Revenge
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Then, turning to ride back into Oakland, a thought came to him that made him grin ruefully as he muttered: And now it's up to me to make good and buy that blamed quarry.
Chapter XIII
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Dick standing at the gate, ruefully contemplating their name -- her name -- in juxtaposition with "dressmaker," crossed her mind directly.
Not Like Other Girls
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`I made a big mistake,' he said ruefully
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He has a habit, he admits ruefully, of crocking himself.
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Those stairs must have been a little more challenging than I thought, he ruefully admitted to himself.
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Puzzled and alarmed, shaking his head ruefully as he recalled the carouse of the silent, he hobbled down the mountain as fast as he might for the grip of the rheumatism on his knees and elbows, and entered his native village.
Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 01: the Hudson and its hills
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Glass shards showered down on his cat that meowed ruefully at him and sulked away.
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It's all organic, Moss says, shrugging ruefully at the almost clichéd expression, but in the end, amongst the schizoid existence, the fear and the joy, Moss is a foot soldier in a war.
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These are the moments at which he recalls ruefully that the great merit of such and such a small case, the merit for his particular advised use, had been precisely in the smallness.
The Awkward Age
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Common sense rarely rules markets—as money managers ruefully admit.
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Mrs.St. Pierre Lawrence knew enough, at all events, Colville reflected, rather ruefully, to disillusionise a schoolgirl, much more a woman of the world, knowing good and evil.
The Last Hope
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She thought ruefully of the cigarette butt, and of Johnny's small handful of apple tree leaves.
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Louise ruefully confessed she rarely tunes in to watch television these days.
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The name clouded his face again, he gazed ruefully into the satisfactory glow he was producing.
The Leper of Saint Giles
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‘I feel as though you're blackmailing or bribing me,’ I said ruefully.
