Examples of regretfully in a Sentence

“I must leave now,” he said regretfully. I must regretfully decline your invitation.

Recent Examples on the Web Michael Gosney was a seventh-grader in Shawnee, Kan. during the Human Be-In on Jan. 14, 1967 and regretfully missed it. — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 May 2022 Yet Brice, knowing all that, still adored him, which makes a far more interesting tale than the bowdlerized one the show offers, of a duped woman finally and regretfully seeing the light. — New York Times, 24 Apr. 2022 The Queen has regretfully canceled several official engagements recently, on her doctors' medical advice. — Iris Goldsztajn, Marie Claire, 3 Nov. 2021 In the instantly infamous Episode 6, Oh’s character literally loses his marbles as his younger partner deviously, regretfully feeds him bad information in order to win. — The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2021 Better to choose one wedding and regretfully decline the other. — Washington Post, 20 June 2021 The legacy of her feminist forebears (regretfully including me: guilty by association if not by intention) made her fantasies feel problematic. — Washington Post, 17 June 2021 Thankfully for the dogs, but regretfully for the plot, Cruella reveals that the coat is made of synthetic fur. — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 29 May 2021 The album thematically traces a breakup, with Laroi looking back regretfully on his and a partner’s mistakes. — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 6 May 2021 See More

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