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How to use sorry for in a sentence

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So I ended up even sicker, in bed, and in between sleeping, feeling sorry for myself, and nuking the jumping spider, I did some thinking.
Every morning I lay in bed, heard them row at breakfast and felt sorry for them.
One should really feel sorry for people whose egos are so weak as to need propping up in that way.
I feel sorry for their staff who now have to commute a lot further or worse still look for new employment.
Adjacent is a little caravan site, and this is the only time I have ever felt sorry for caravaners.
In years gone by, I'd have felt a tiny bit sorry for them, but now the sight was verging on painful.
I wish my band could open for them, because I actually feel sorry for the audience.
But there is no need to feel sorry for the government if its good crime figures are unknown.
I find it close to impossible to feel sorry for a politician who finds his or her career crashing in ruins.
But I actually felt sorry for it and gave it a final squish to make sure it was dead.
And I'm really sorry for using you as a distraction and I'm sorry if I've hurt you.
I'm so sorry for calling so late, and I'm really terribly sorry about at school to day.
I was sorry for making him leave, I was sorry for not being able to save him, I was so sorry.
The worst thing you can do at this stage is start feeling sorry for yourself, tell yourself you're feeling tired.
The way I look at it, if you have a disability, then you can either lie in bed and feel sorry for yourself, or you get up and get on with it.
It's easy to feel sorry for yourself, that's the easy option and it's not one that I've ever chosen.
He waited for her, feeling sorry for himself and miserable with his own thoughts about how he had mistrusted her.
That makes him a great person to access when you're feeling sorry for yourself because you've lost your cell phone.
They refuse to allow Mike to veg out and feel sorry for himself, and force him out to various social engagements.
You have to perform for the fans because nobody pays good money to watch you feel sorry for yourself.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I forgive you, if you are sorry for the fault, and my arms are ready to receive you.
Mr. Packwood carried me into the house, and both he and his wife felt sorry for me.
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?
Gracie Dennis thought she saw the certainty of failure, and was sorry for it.
He smarted under its lash, but held his temper in check because he was sorry for the girl.
But what I can't understand is why you should be so sorry for a hobbledehoy like that.
In my heart of hearts, way down underneath, I am kind of sneakingly sorry for Harry Townsend.
She had not meant to say that so baldly, and she was sorry for the slip as soon as the words were out.
If you do not wish to make a confidante of me, Josephine, I am sorry for it, but not offended.
When the gods restored Pelops to life, Ceres was very sorry for her carelessness and gave him a shoulder of ivory.
Who more sorry for the righteous and necessary doom which the impenitence of heartlessness drags down upon itself?
I am sorry for you all, and for you especially that you should have had to take an active part in the business.
He felt all the more sorry for the girl because misfortune had, in a sense, indentured her to them.
And then I began to be sorry for the woolly bear and to wish I could go and have a look at him.
Then he said he was sorry for that, as he meant to nominate me for a studentship.
Then he was sorry for the pride of it, and he pulled it down on his face, and whistled to stop his nose from jagging.
Just at that time there came up behind him a poor moujik, who felt sorry for the beggar, and gave him a copeck.
Captain penman looked at the girl beside him, and was sorry for her disappointment.
If she says she is sorry for likening me to Winfield, I will tell her who sent the roses.
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