How To Use Sorry In A Sentence

  • Sorry, that was a bit of a goof on my part!
  • Sorry, I didn't mean to startle you.
  • I'm sorry to bother you but I wondered if I could speak to you for a moment.
  • Once again, sorry if I sped things up too quickly, but I can't change my desire to get this story finished.
  • I'm sorry to be such a marplot, but you can take it out in quizzing me after I'm gone. Rose in Bloom
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  • Let me start by saying sorry if this has been posted elsewhere, but I couldn't find it in the sticky and I'm not sure how to search whole questions.
  • Sorry Richard if I seem overexercised by Marilyn Frith on Tuesday, Apr 1, 2008 at 4: 23: 01 PM The Clinton Firewall
  • But perhaps you just feel sorry for the poor rabbit. Times, Sunday Times
  • I'm sorry but I can't.
  • It all makes me feel rather sorry for men: as if being present at the birth has become some sort of test of moral fibre.
  • February 24, 2006 4: 56 PM bibliobibuli said ... visitor - you sure naughty one chatting up the girls again. what your ah mooi going to say this time? anna - sorry you were scrabbled, but at least you can take your piccy from here Meet Up and Scribble Night
  • I'm so sorry to hear he died.
  • But he sent me a really nice email saying sorry and it takes a proper person to apologise. The Sun
  • Yet despite the problems in amplification, I was not sorry that I attended. Rabbi Sid Schwarz: Jon Stewart: We Need More than Amplification
  • But they are sorry, that they have just cause to regrate, that men of meer civill place and employment should usurp the calling and employment of the ministry, to the scandall of the reformed kirks, and particularly in The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
  • Oops, sorry, I forgot Chicoutimi was the boat involved in that tragic fire and is still not repaired. One way to fill blogspace on a pre-long weekend Friday – Liveblogging a PMO background briefing - Inside the Queensway - Macleans.ca
  • Sorry, for 2 days now I have been stuck in Gollum-mode, drooling over the iPhone. IWants it!
  • Playing the game fairly means not bending the rules because you feel sorry for someone or cheating because you think your opponent doesn't deserve to win.
  • We were truly, truly sorry that there was the shortfall in our initial funding of the foundation.
  • Sorry, but I guessed the bait-and-switch just when the second interpolation about cobra flowers hit in. CONSUMING • by Krystyna Smallman
  • Sorry,’ I winced, as he wandered back into the room, his hair beginning to stick up in bizarre tufty spikes.
  • Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to tread on your foot.
  • Sorry Tracey ... but if you go to the cooler where all processed meats are sold at costco you can buy a pack of 15 hot dogs to take home ... and it is there that the devil lies in the details ... Shopping at Costco just got even more awesome
  • Sorry I most likely do have quite a few grammar mistakes and so on.
  • It was certainly entertaining and one could not help but feel sorry for him for being involved with such a grasping, shallow woman of the sort portrayed here!
  • I'm sorry I offended you; it wasn't my intention.
  • While sitting in a coffee shop, we overheard a woman tearfully tell her husband that she was sorry that her work had been so consuming.
  • Don't come crawlin to me to feed your sorry butt when the grociery stores fail health inspections and you are starvin while im enjoyin some brunswick stew with deer meat or some rabbit with my home grown salad. Anti-Deer-Hunting Billboard Goes Up in Kansas City
  • I'm sorry about the other day.
  • Dudley Turner Westerham, Kent• Sorry, but I don't want to have post-Christmas breakfast looking at the page-four photograph of the Beaufort hunt and then turn to the centrefold to find yet another "traditional" hunting scene. Letters: Morris dancing beats hunting for Boxing Day fun
  • Mr Hardman, I'm sorry, but your view of Little Lever is very different from mine. I took off my rose-coloured glasses a long time ago.
  • I'm sorry, but I don't buy about 90% of what this writer credulously relates.
  • The last of the summer's flowers are mush, all the leaves have fallen off the maple and my chrysanthemums are looking a sorry sight.
  • I'm terribly sorry. I didn't catch your name.
  • We are sorry if this suggestion caused any offence. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is no point moping around, feeling sorry for ourselves. Times, Sunday Times
  • The sorry repercussions of embracing superhumanism-a new absolutistic faith - are everywhere to be seen. He who says speciesism says fascism-
  • This is rather sorry stuff; but then in purely rural places, untouched by that great civiliser, the railroad, a little wit goes a great way, as we may see by the following story told in Pasquil's "Jests," 1604. A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide
  • I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with your poetry.
  • He might have had the grace to say he was sorry!
  • Oswald felt heartfeltly sorry to wound the good Colonel's feelings, but he had to remark that he had only done his duty, and he was sure no British scout would take five bob for doing that. The Wouldbegoods
  • I am sorry that you should think me rash, if the idea of rashness is unpleasant to you -- I will make any other concession in reason rather than quarrel with you. Taquisara
  • Hey. I'm Solan. Sorry for disturbing you these days.
  • The crew were in a sorry plight by the time they reached shore.
  • I'm sorry to say that it's not true about the quack of a duck.
  • I'm sorry, but Ms. Bouvier is out of the office. Could you try again later.
  • No one cares for me, though I think the brook is sometimes sorry, and tries to tell me things. Little Saint Elizabeth, and Other Stories
  • He was every kid's worst nightmare for an uncle so feel sorry for Elissa - he was her uncle.
  • Sorry to interrupt, but there's someone to see you.
  • I'm sorry I missed the comment date on the jamaica/barbados articles, but the GDP increase of Jamaica was twice that of Barbados over the past year. Tyler Hits a Home Run, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • Calm down! I've said I'm sorry.
  • And, indeed, so solitary and remote is this ancient edifice, and so simple is the mode of living of the people in this by-corner of Spain, that the appearance of even a sorry calesa might well cause astonishment. The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus
  • As I am aware that the jack hammers from the next block all last summer were intrusive and you know darn well the birds that roosted in the abandoned former furniture factory trees this past year nearly drove me out of my mind - before I decided to set off cohetes during the day and early evening to run them off, which worked, but drives your dogs crazy for which I am very sorry. Sound ordinance in ajijic?
  • Jeez, I've made some errors in my time..." "Look, I'm sorry. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
  • We're sorry to hear of your father's death.
  • Sorry, it was late at night and I was just put off by the notion that some substantial return of illegal migrants in the US to their native land would "repopulate" Mexico. Living in Mexico
  • They were a sorry sight when they eventually got off the boat.
  • Every morning I lay in bed, heard them row at breakfast and felt sorry for them.
  • I can only conclude by saying that I am sorry the situation has developed the way it has.
  • I apologized absolutely saying that I had entirely forgotten in my enthusiasm and was very sorry. Broken Lives
  • Obviously they're all dead certs, and if (sorry, I mean when) all six come in this afternoon, you'll win about a hundred thousand.
  • Yes, I am sorry, I did not want to make that implication.
  • ,Never mind ,saying you're 'sorry, who's going to pay for the damage you've done?
  • I'm sorry to rush you, but we need a decision by Friday.
  • Sorry I'm late?my watch has stopped.
  • Large Hadron collider is 27 Km in circumference and will accelerates protons to 99. 99999% the speed of light (I might not have gotten the right number of 9s, sorry if this spoils your calculations if you are trying this at home). Boing Boing
  • Well, I'm sorry you've lost your shoes, but you've got to laugh, haven't you?
  • On behalf of the people that I represent in this parliament, I say sorry for these past injustices.
  • Sorry you have such a tough time finding t hings that don't bother you. A Simple Supper
  • Sorry, but "incent" is a useful word, which is why it's not going away any time soon. Getting catty about legal language
  • I'm sorry. I must dash away now. I'm already late for the concert.
  • Having some transindental brain fart and not being able “to look at something I've killed” is a load of poopy (sorry, need to keep this clean for the kids). The Meat Not Eaten
  • The buildings were reduced to rubble, a few sorry pillars left standing.
  • I'm sorry to disturb you, but can I talk to you for a moment?
  • Sorry for the short notice.
  • Who marrieth for love without money, hath good nights and sorry days. 
  • His lawyer said: 'He was dazzled by glamour and is sorry for his lies. The Sun
  • Im sorry but theres nothing "suave" about this at all! Make An Outlet-Mounted Charge Station From A Shampoo Bottle | Lifehacker Australia
  • He arranged terms of intimacy, I am sorry to say, with the housemaid; and, on the third journey, he made an alliance with the potboy at the Full Moon. He Knew He Was Right
  • Sorry Matthieu, you are adorable, but your papa is chaud! Avocat - French Word-A-Day
  • Sorry I missed the cook out …. for Star Wars (10th annual PA collectors society met the same day), but thx for signing the books I had friends bring and a huge thx for the deal on Clicker 1-3! Pics from Creator Cookout 2010 – Brian Keene
  • 'Yi, lass; we're awlus for patchin' th'Almeety's work; and if He leet us, we's mak 'a sorry mess on it and o'. ' Lancashire Idylls (1898)
  • Sorry, but I think the mushy middle is called mushy for a reason. Firedoglake » FDL Book Salon — Before the Storm, Pt. 2
  • There is nothing wrong with making money, but are we supposed to be sorry for the inept and obtuse customer care services (ever look at a invoice from a insurance company?) and compassion less “death panels” of the health insurance industry and the thoughtless, cavalier and deceptive practices of the financial dealings on wall street (GS and the Greek economy comes to mind)? Think Progress » Rep. McCotter complains that Obama ‘demonizes’ Wall Street and insurance companies.
  • U2 coldplay the beatles sorry I am probably a lot younger tehn most of you guys. Favorite musicians
  • TO THE ZEEs: Sorry to see you made what I label a compulsive decision. Kiplinger Personal Finance
  • The shortest of the three men came up on to the dock, took a gun with a silencer attached from under his dustcoat, said, 'Sorry about this,' and shot Frank Minto twice in the chest. Autumn Maze
  • Sorry to bother you with such a rudimentary question.
  • A lot of people may overlook him now, but they'll be sorry in the long run.
  • Sorry to be so particular about describing the packaging.
  • It almost makes you feel sorry for parking wardens. The Sun
  • Get your dumb "redkneck" ass off of the site you idiot non thinking retard, Oh! sorry that would be an insult to retards, you sub-human freak. (i only used the term retard for affect, i do not or cannott have ignorant positions like you, so let me be clear about that). Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • Sorry to descend on you like this, but we had no time to phone.
  • Sorry to disappoint you, but I never got to see Fergie's polo mallets.
  • Lydia felt briefly sorry for her and attempted to engage her in conversation, but it was no good.
  • We are sincerely sorry for anyone who has experienced difficulties with us. Times, Sunday Times
  • The final sorry part of this sordid tale is the way in which the media and their expert pundits were so uncritical in analysing the information.
  • The defendant was ashamed, sorry and had written the victim a letter of apology.
  • Sorry, but if Wilson's outburst was "uncivil," what is lying to the American people called? Resolution criticizing Wilson passes, on mostly partisan vote
  • The only way to handle these situations is to actually be honest and just ask "I'm really sorry I forgot, but what's your name again?"
  • I'm sorry," she said, `I didn't mean to insinuate that...' `Are you ready? LET NOT THE DEEP
  • And then we shall not be sorry because we cannot get a Gairfowl to stuff, much less find gairfowl enough to drive them into stone pens and slaughter them, as the old Norsemen did, or drive them on board along a plank till the ship was victualled with them, as the old English and French rovers used to do, of whom dear old The Water-Babies A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby
  • With the flavours intensifying as the food simultaneously steams and roasts, and no juices lost or boiled away, the end result is bags of flavour (sorry).
  • Sorry, but pretending that any American auto manufacturer is healthy is delusional, stupid and ridiculous. Think Progress » Arizona legislature demands immigrants and President of the United States verify their status.
  • I'm sorry, I can't quite catch the drift of what you're saying.
  • I am sad, just because I want to feel sorry.
  • He said, "Sorry your party ended up in a yike, Mum. Never mind. The tucker was marvellous."
  • I'm sorry that I can't be with you on this Valentine's Day. I send this Valen tine's card to remind you that I love you.
  • I feel sorry for the poor contestants auditioning today. The Sun
  • It is better to be safe than sorry
  • Look Sarah, I am sorry if you think it is the right thing to do to "coddle" a person under the age of 18 by treating them with "kids gloves" in your response to them on here. Columbia Missourian: Latest Articles
  • Suddenly my wife exclaimed ‘Sorry, I have to go, he's slipped his collar’.
  • ‘I'm sorry, sweetheart,’ he said, coming over to give her a hug.
  • Why should I say sorry when it's not my fault?
  • Another family drove past, the children perched on top of a couple of mattresses strapped over another sorry pile of possessions.
  • Sorry, milord, however this is my time to take in the city.
  • Sorry, would-be martyrs, we do not censor your favorite sites from comments, unless you're into mature mamas or something.
  • Surely you need to do a picture of GOB doing his coin spraying trick... sorry...illusion. Never-nude Arrested!
  • Dear Mason, Things are so crazy here-sorry I didn't have time to write back and say congrats on fabulous heron photos. FLIGHT LESSONS
  • Um, sorry, no prize for being the first,butwe appreciate it just the same! Happy birthday, Sync! | Sync Blog
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  • I am terribly sorry this should have happened and I sincerely hope that we hear from them.
  • EyesOnly on Aug 8, 2008 oh, and to followup, spiderman is a complete d-bag superhero who would get his butt whooped by pretty much any superhero except for maybe "the question" lol, superman would crush him, batman would kill him, the list goes on and on, lol. sorry, i had to go off on that little tangent. Sound Off: The Dark Knight - What Did You Think?! « FirstShowing.net
  • This mistake was the genesis of all the sorry tale that was to follow.
  • Look Sarah, I am sorry if you think it is the right thing to do to "coddle" a person under ... Columbia Missourian: Latest Articles
  • I'm sorry to have to knock you up in the middle of the night.
  • Mai compy haz sima… simlr… almost same problem… and iz sorry if my lolspeak be bad… iz nu to loling… OK! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • I am really sorry that Julian made a very expensive mistake like this, and left his coins unattended in vehicle I believe overnight if I am reading the stories correctly. Coin Dealer Julian Leidman Victim of Vehicle Burglary. Reward Grows to $156,000 : Coin Collecting News
  • Add to these charges the negligence and incompetence shown throughout this sorry affair.
  • Should I keep chuntering on about it on my website on a daily basis until everyone stops feeling sorry for me?
  • I'm sorry. I didn't mean to pry.
  • Sorry - Bad mistake: I really didn't mean 'picket' -- that'd make us as bad as them, but more obvious! On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • ‘I'm sorry, ma'am,’ Elizabeth instantly apologized, ‘I didn't mean to implore.’
  • I'm sorry. I know I was bitchy on the phone.
  • I wouldn't be sorry if he actually won the darn thing. The Sun
  • My GPS tells me exactly where to turn and when and I love her and I am so heartily sorry for all the times I've suspected that she's trying to leave me for dead on an unpaved road in cannibal territory. What I did on the weekend -- Part 2: How do you say "Curse you, Mapquest!" in French?
  • He told the woman that he was very sorry but he seemed to have left his wallet at home.
  • There are no words to say how sorry we are.
  • Sorry, Larry, it's very clever,' Carol said, not wanting to alienate her British back-up. THE LAST TEMPTATION
  • This had all the school's musical instruments on it: a xylophone, a handful of glockenspiels, some woodblocks, a few chime bars, about four very sorry-looking drums, and about 5 million triangles.
  • I would have been very sorry indeed to have missed the latest reincarnation of the Stephen Sondheim musical Follies.
  • He might have had the grace to say he was sorry!
  • Maybe the re-appearance of her beloved Quickos will finally drag her out of this sorry state of maudlin, mumbling, booze-addled torpor.
  • I'm sorry to say I have to hold the ball back for half an hour, Princess Diana will join us.
  • I should be sorry to have any boodle about me with that man in the house.
  • Sorry,I forgot.You don't need me anymore.
  • A I'm sorry, let our love lost time, lost to the distance.
  • When another nearby paparazzo began videotaping the incident - sorry, "altercation" - Crowley went after him, throwing that camera to the floor. Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk
  • They'd been ducking him in the water. Poor fellow, he cut a sorry figure.
  • I'm sorry I'm late; I slept through the clock this morning.
  • I'm sorry I didn't mention that when I wrote his obituary or delivered his eulogy.
  • Sorry mate, you'll have to wait.
  • If someone hurts you, please continue good good, to enjoy life, hurt the same. One day, that person will be sorry to miss you.
  • Sorry but it makes no sense to quote Reagan redware Blackballing Toomey and Hating DeMint - Erick’s blog - RedState
  • `Sorry to bring you this round-about route to Laura's, but she asked me to pick up some pickled brisket from Bloom's. OUT OF THE ASHES
  • ‘Oh, I'm sorry,’ Kevin said, unable to help a slight saucy grin.
  • Sorry if it still doesn't make sense but it does to me, sorry!
  • Sorry for all the good ol 'boys in butternut and gray, but they had some responsibility for what happened -- and for losing. Latest News Media Claim: U.S.
  • I should be sorry to have to advise the Parish Council to look elsewhere for banking services.
  • I can't help feeling mighty sorry for him, if the foster birdling is really going to fly away from his nest after he has reared and loved her so tenderly, but, after all, it is only the history of the human race. 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands
  • I'm sorry I lied to you.
  • I can't express how sorry I am.
  • I'm sorry you had a wasted journey.
  • I'm sorry to say I have to hold the ball back for half an hour, Princess Diana will join us.
  • I'm sorry for the kids. They deserve better .
  • I grab my bowl, that Mary had added a heap of cilantro, Parmesan and cabbage, and wander over to the table with the window view of the fog-draped, rain dappled, slow-moving Milwaukee River taking its sorry-ass time through the warehouse district on its way to Lake Michigan. March « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
  • I'm sorry, I don't understand. Can you explain that again?
  • I am sorry that I missed my chance this evening to register my protest, futile though it would have been.
  • I think you are m-making me inf-fernally sorry," said an unsteady little voice. The Fortieth Door
  • But she must say sorry and not see the neighbour. The Sun
  • Sorry Spurs but a point is all you are ever going to get from that game at Old Trafford.
  • Look, I'm really sorry I woke you, and, well, I just wanted to tell you I was all right.
  • Accusing us of being disloyal to cover his own sorry behavior is truly execrable.
  • We are very sorry, Mayflower Chinese Site ongoing routine maintenance.
  • But Woking, I'm sorry to say, seems to have accepted this slight without even the mildest mutter of protest.
  • ‘I'm so sorry I didn't mean to just start crying like that, wow I feel so stupid’ She reached behind her and snagged a tissue off the counter and dabbed at the corner of her eyes and sniffled delicately into the crumply tissue.
  • Oops – sorry – yes – I now recall overpopulation is in the background of the plot. Bruce McAllister’s Short Story ‘Kin’ « Official Harry Harrison News Blog
  • I'm sorry. I seem to be off my game today; let's play again tomorrow.
  • I may post more later, if I can sort out my thoughts better (my brain is slush at the moment, sorry!)
  • I'm sorry to disturb you, but can I talk to you for a moment?
  • I'm sorry to have to knock you up in the middle of the night.
  • But there is an anti-patriot who honestly angers honest men, and the explanation of him is, I think, what I have suggested: he is the uncandid candid friend; the man who says, "I am sorry to say we are ruined," and is not sorry at all. Orthodoxy
  • Sorry, could you just say that last sentence again please?
  • We are very sorry that Mrs Collins has experienced distress, and we are still waiting to establish the facts.
  • Another reader (I lost his name, sorry!) has reduced retrophrenology to understandable terms.
  • Sorry, I'm too busy to talk to you now.
  • 'I'm sorry,' she said quietly.
  • I am immensely contrite, and I am sorry for the damage that I've done.
  • Police Control – Sorry Mrs X our unit is awaiting on the side of the road at the moment as they have a headlight out and a puncture. It’s A Car Tyre – I Can Manage – Go Away! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • Michael Roberts @ 291: "I sit corrected, and heresiarch, sorry, I not only didn't know, I didn't know I didn't know. Making Light: Rowling's being sued for plagiarism again
  • He'd be awfully sorry after he accidentally walloped her on the head with a cuspidor, but she'd still have the aching noggin.
  • The officer - now but a poor, sorry soul mourning for Christmas - could scarcely contain his unhappiness.
  • Eric, sorry — what I actually meant to ask was, do you have a moduli-induced gravitino problem? String Theory is Losing the Public Debate
  • I'm sorry to have to rush off like this.
  • I'm sorry, I know that these are uncomfortable, even brutal questions, but they must be asked.
  • I have tried my best during my years of public service to keep that name untarnished and respected, unmarked by sorry compromises for expediency. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • Sorry for the rant i just love this series and its like everyone is starting to be to loosy goosey with our movies! Twilight Lexicon » David Slade Gets Artistic
  • And now I'm a newly minted PI with a postdoc and a part time research assistant and have to relinquish control of the day-to-day benchy stuff ... and I'm not sorry to admit that I am completely sick of doing bench work myself and hope to avoid it like the plague from here on. Control freak
  • This sorry saga began back in the days when the badge on your car meant something. Times, Sunday Times
  • Danvers would not be very sorry to hear of the death of this charming creature, as he might then dispose of the little jointured estate in Derbyshire. Vicissitudes in Genteel Life

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