Example sentences for: regrettable

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

  • To minimize this week's embassy bombing, Clinton called it a "mistake," "accident," and "tragic event" (other U.S. officials called it "regrettable" and an "error" entailing "loss of life").

  • The paper's tone was more funeral dirge than rallying cry: "One of the more regrettable consumer fads of the 1990s has been the invasion of ersatz American-style coffee bars, all stainless steel and froth and cool.

  • " 'It is their rapid rise here, of course, that makes this careless effort at a cookbook so regrettable,' " the obit quotes the 1998 Times piece.

  • A cement factory belching smoke is a regrettable addition to this corner of the valley.

  • Alan Kling defends liposuction, despite a few regrettable deaths.


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