Words similar to regretted

Example sentences for: regretted

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

He regretted that he wouldn't be "able" to visit key primary states for months.
For starters, why did it take him 16 months to retract lies he claims to have immediately regretted?
Noting that NATO's only comment on the latter event was the passive phrase, "it is regretted," Fisk said NATO wants us to believe that it has reserved its sorrow for the Albanian refugees expelled from Kosovo.
If I have regretted keeping quite once, I have regretted my speech many times over, another proverb admonishes in my left ear, while at my right there whispers in Arabic and then in English: idhaa kaana al-kalaam min fiDDah fa as-sukuut min dhahab: If speech is silver, silence is golden.
Before reading this book, I didn't quite understand why McCain so regretted affixing his name to an absurd-sounding Stalinist confession.