How to Use sorry in a Sentence

sorry

adjective

• I'm sorry for your loss.
• What a sorry state of affairs we're in now.
• She was sorry to hear about their divorce.
• I'm sorry for saying that.
• I'm sorry that I wasted your time.
• That's the sorriest excuse I've heard.
• I'm sorry if I offended you.
• Maybe my old coach felt sorry for me.
  — Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
• Just not a freak that way, sorry.
  — Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
• Best to be safe rather than sorry.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
• The claaaaw—sorry, the baaaangs!
  — Mykenna Maniece, Vogue, 29 May 2026
• Just feel sorry for Randy, his back.
  — Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
• And sorry, but your low-code builder isn’t top of the food chain.
  — Andrew Siemer, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
• Sam Darnold is just not that guy, sorry.
  — Dan Pompei, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2026
• But no one is going to feel sorry for us.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 15 Dec. 2025
• But there's no need to feel sorry for Lowry.
  — ABC News, 3 Mar. 2026
• Thank you for the good times sorry for the bad ones and for a great six years.
  — Walden Green, Pitchfork, 31 Mar. 2025
• No one needed to feel sorry for her.
  — Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 17 June 2026
• No one’s going to feel sorry for us.
  — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2025
• Our backs are against the wall and no one’s going to feel sorry.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2021
• There isn't a part of me that wants anyone to feel sorry for me.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
• Ginny is sorry, but she's had her own stuff to deal with too.
  — Jean Bentley, refinery29.com, 3 Mar. 2021
• Not sorry for all the Curbed links; there’s a lot to read this week!
  — Kelsey Keith, Curbed, 16 Aug. 2019
• And so sorry for the fans who came to sing and dance and be free and happy.
  — Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Oct. 2017
• Foggy is still dead, guys, sorry.
  — ArsTechnica, 13 May 2026
• Blair fans, sorry to break it to you, but headbands are not the star this time around.
  — Alexis Bennet, Vogue, 8 July 2021
• These things are around for so much longer than any of us — sorry to bring death into it.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 17 June 2026
• And the movie certainly doesn't ask us to feel sorry for her.
  — Esther Zuckerman, Marie Claire, 21 Sep. 2017
• But because the sorry state of transplant medicine took us down.
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 19 Apr. 2023
• The kid acts up, the dad disciplines him and mom just sends a sorry text.
  — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2025