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How to use regretful in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word regretful? Here are some examples.

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At the same time, I breathe a regretful sigh at the anguish, the desperation and the rage reflected in the letters I hold in my hand.
I sat there in quiet, feeling regretful for anything contemptible I ever thought about the many sitting in front of me.
I give it a regretful look, hoping it won't be my last and turn to head back inside.
So when the totem tumbles, consistency alone would seem to justify something more regretful than a shrug of unconcern.
Her smile was slightly sad and regretful, almost pitying as she continued speaking.
In one case, a tiny, angry-looking boy is judged sufficiently regretful to return to the school where he threatened a bodyguard.
The professional soldier is one who is cold, dispassionate and regretful in his duty when forced to kill.
He said everyone present was deeply regretful about the situation and had really wanted to see the radiotherapy unit become a reality.
Though, if he was so regretful he'd tell me what in good bejesus was going on!
Bragg sometimes seems vaguely regretful about the fact that he is not thought of, primarily, as a writer.
However, there is no doubt in my mind that the two officers were genuinely regretful that they were not requested to stop traffic.
The typist smiles to himself as the story returns like an apologetic lover, penitent, regretful and contrite.
She slipped out the door, relieved that she was able to sneak out, vacating the room, before anything regretful was said or done.
Kent the narrator is wise to the flaws of his younger self, if not exactly regretful.
The film is an elementally emotional work, flooded everywhere by a deep, regretful sort of fatalism.
It's hard not to be carried along by the regretful emotion of the latter, or the similarly-themed Can't Stand Me Now.
She treats Ophelia with a regretful disdain on realising she has become a stool pigeon.
Liz's face altered from smiling and cheerful to regretful and apologetic.
But it is utterly regretful that no one could understand the reality.
But precisely where did these regretful thoughts occur so that they could have had this effect?
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Examples from Classical Literature
We would be regretful if that were to occur, but there is nothing of the sort possible.
She was amused by Gwendolyn, but regretful that the visit had been timed just then.
Naturally, that at first made him regretful, and later it made him jealous.
But Rainier dinners were not for poor boys, and with a regretful sigh he followed his comrade in another direction.
The quaestor looked at them with a faintly regretful air and pushed the weapon back in its holster.
Young Potter's bill was tremendous, and Mrs. bumboat bade him a regretful farewell when she visited us for the last time.
The handsome Cardinal was suave, courtly, regretful, but firm.
I continued also the wish to be with you, and experienced a strange, regretful consciousness of some barrier dividing us.
Their language, when they foozled, was gently regretful rather than sulphurous.
But he only gazed at her with a thoughtful, regretful perplexity.
Bela let him have it with a regretful look at the thick, bright hair.
They had the funny, regretful glances, intonations, nods of men who had seen other, better times.
We shall see Paris only for a little while as we come back to take up our line of march for the ship, and so I may as well bid the beautiful city a regretful farewell.
They went heavenward, supporting each other along the difficult path which it was their lot to tread, and never wasted one regretful thought on the vanities of Merry Mount.
Since then the troubles of her married life had deepened, and the absence of other relief encouraged her regretful rumination over that thin romance which she had once fed on.
I was also very thirsty, and bitterly regretful I had drunk no more water.
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