Example sentences for: ruefully

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

  • --Prudence, ruefully

  • "There was a time not long ago when congressional hearings were designed to elicit information for members in order to help them draft legislation," recalls Reich ruefully.

  • He ruefully concluded that even this could stimulate an over-heated imagination.

  • Dr. Haugen declared in an article, The Rune Stones of Spirit Pond, Maine, in Man in the Northeast , No. 4, 1972, p. 77 that the stones were modern artifacts, which Chapman ruefully glosses as fakes.

  • The academy also calls upon all French to send in further examples of “linguistic pollution,” observing ruefully that this is one museum which will be open 12 months a year.


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