Example sentences for: regret

How can you use “regret” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Most critics use the occasion as another opportunity to bash him for his "blatant bias and outrageous exaggerations" (Robert Bianco, USA Today ). Others regret that Drudge is less than telegenic and fails to deliver the dish his promos promised.

  • The government has always used the word hansei , regret, instead of owabi , apologize.

  • "There are some days that I regret that the relationship ever started," she says, still grinning.

  • Most critics take the opportunity to sum up Capote's career: They recall with regret that Capote spent more time schmoozing than writing, and deem his work less memorable than his social appearances, particularly at his fabled 1966 "Black and White Ball" and on the Tonight Show . Critics also chide Plimpton for rehashing, rather than investigating, old accusations, such as Capote's alleged lying and drinking problems.

  • Critics revel in his elegant deflation of bunk theories, finding in his work "qualities in increasingly short supply in academic circles: old-fashioned moral rigor and plain old common sense" (Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times ). Some regret that Rosenbaum does not proffer his own theory clarifying the mysterious origins of Hitler's evil.


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