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How to use regretting in a sentence

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He gave me an once-over, slowly letting his gaze survey me up and down, and I felt my cheeks heat up, regretting my stupid retort.
I gulped, immediately regretting my decision but I was afraid to tell Mrs. Beckett that I changed my mind so quickly.
She furrowed her eyebrows and sat up swiftly, immediately regretting it when the room spun before her in a cyclone.
I wouldn't say the crowd laughed themselves sick, but I was regretting not bringing the video camera for Kirsty's home videos.
Kinda regretting putting off my Christmas shopping until next week because this traffic is ridic.
A few dropped out of the full monty photo and are possibly regretting the decision since the calendar is going down a bomb in local pubs.
It occurs to me that I could end up regretting this, but what the hey, Saturnalia only comes once a year.
Will we be regretting our single or common law status sans children when we're 40 and are nearing the end of our childbearing days?
I babbled some nonsense about making an authentic Indian meal, regretting my purchase as she rang it up.
He shut his eyes immediately, probably regretting the words he had just uttered.
He is really tired of her entitlement and you can tell he's regretting what he's gotten himself into.
After spending nine years there, he, like many refugees in a tight bind, made a deal that he is now regretting.
But it's hard not to examine the writing or the characterization without regretting their overwrought, bombastic tones.
And taxpayers considered them public bloodsuckers, regretting the days when financiers were put on trial for embezzlement.
The finished product, in conclusion, is far from perfect and we are left regretting that David fled so abruptly.
But I've been regretting my undauntedness because it makes me seem callous to my wife's difficulty with the wait.
I slammed the door behind me, immediately regretting it, for I could hear Brendan's heavy footsteps as he ran off to tell Mom.
Rachel hid her amused smirk behind her mug, immediately regretting the leaving of her fan in the carriage.
He won by a fairly narrow margin here anyway, and I think many of the people who did vote for him will now be regretting their choice.
I groaned and threw my head to the side, regretting it immediately after.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Stephen, regretting that he had begun, since a volcano might be the consequence, was obliged to go on.
The reflection that in Montego Bay he would be no better off, hindered him from greatly regretting the circumstance.
Jones, regretting the ungiven clip, banged the door, and the libel-loving Glew went pleasantly on his way.
But as it has gone so far, and it is necessary for us to act, it is of no use shrinking or regretting.
Being questioned by the procurator fiscal, he shrugged his shoulders, regretting that other affairs demanded his attention.
Perhaps, too, she had another reason for regretting her companion's witlessness.
At every hour, he had to listen to his wife praising and regretting her first husband.
You will be regretting by now that you did not kill me too, as I invited you on that occasion.
He began his attack adroitly by complimenting my new house and by regretting that I was shingling the roof.
Ever since he had been a master-printer on his own account, he had been regretting the fact.
Inglethorp's cheque, and regretting they had been unable to trace a certain series of Russian folksongs.
It is then that one cannot help regretting the Johnsonian black cap.
I checked the half-uttered invective, and scornfully turned away, regretting that I had given him so much amusement.
It was the castle-building of that time that I was regretting.
Cora, already regretting her precipitation, was obliged to comply, for Magua instantly left the spot, and approached his gluttonous comrades.
She returned to the house, secretly regretting that she had not heard more of Frank's complimentary complaints.
And he went away regretting his words, for he knew that Christine could not be the wife of the Vicomte de Chagny.
Captain Nemo stopped at these last words, regretting perhaps that he had spoken so much.
Gainsborough found himself regretting London and the little house.
Gervaise had calmed down and was already regretting her hastiness.
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