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How to use sorry in a sentence

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

Sentence Examples
In fact, it was such an amazing improvement that I was quite sorry to let it go!
It has been a sorry period for Swindon's schools, and the reasons behind the town's bad marks are difficult to boil down.
I'm sorry I couldn't get you that rose diamond, but I thought you might like the next best thing.
I'm sorry if I sound a bit judgemental but I'm only telling you because I'm concerned about you.
It's a farmers' problem and while everyone should feel sorry for them, and give them a help out, we can't all go to the wall for them.
But at the same time, I have to say sorry again because I cannot help hurting your feelings.
I went there to laugh at the washed-up child star, and I'm sorry that I ever thought like that.
There is no waspish remark to follow and I am sorry if this outbreak of sincerity causes any distress.
I'm sorry to keep harping on this New York Times article, but I just can't help it.
One feels quite sorry for our politicians and their wives that they have to suffer all this nonsense in their busy lives.
In his neck two of his vertebrae seemed to be fused together and in quite a sorry state.
Tom, I am sorry if you, Meg or any other weblogger has been offended by anything I've written.
The whole sorry saga shows that the meaning of racism has become twisted beyond recognition.
Too busy partying and making money to settle down and have family, they seem to say, well, you'll be sorry!
He knew he was taking a risk, but there was something about this scrawny little ragamuffin which made him feel desperately sorry for her.
I'm sorry, but your mother and I have to go to Tokyo to judge the country competition.
Jason didn't like being railroaded into anything, but he did feel sorry for Janice.
The paint was peeling, many of the rooms were cluttered with junk and the whole place looked sorry for itself.
But I am sorry that, in the name of health, we can be dictated to with scarcely a whisper of protest.
I'm sorry to have kept you waiting, but I was setting up a delicate experiment in the observatory.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Which was very ugly in me, and I cried afterwards and told her how sorry I was.
If there's one sort of man I detest more than another, it's a man who is sorry for himself.
I am very sorry that my claiming to be the evil influence has had so little effect.
Just at that time there came up behind him a poor moujik, who felt sorry for the beggar, and gave him a copeck.
I am sorry to be obliged to refuse you, but I should not be justified in acceding to your request.
The desert rat took it, a little sorry that he had not been more temperate in his language.
In the first place she'll be sorry for you, because you will make such a bungle of it.
Gracie Dennis thought she saw the certainty of failure, and was sorry for it.
I was just thinking, said Herb, with an attempt at dignity, how sorry I am for all those poor sick people in clintonia.
If you do not wish to make a confidante of me, Josephine, I am sorry for it, but not offended.
I forgive you, if you are sorry for the fault, and my arms are ready to receive you.
Now, in retrospection, she was alternately sorry that she had said as much and that she had not said more.
I am sorry to see that Erasmus imitated his enemies and at times was ambidextrous in the use of the literary stinkpot.
At the evening meeting he said he was very sorry he had made the Dartford speech.
I knew that I had done wrong in bribing a servant, but I was not a bit sorry for it.
I s'pose you're sorry some of us didn't get all cut up and bruised, so you could patch us up.
Many a busher I have seen go back who has tried hard to make good and just could not, and I have felt sorry for him.
Are you not a bit sorry for the neat little halo that now hangs like a piece of castoff clothing on the bedpost of an adulteress?
Labe was sorry, too, I don't doubt, when his bedtime went by and he kept runnin' afoul of one of your mistakes after another.
Fortunately, neither of the girls were troubled with air sickness though Enid was not sorry when Bay City was sighted ahead.
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