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.
• Thank you for the good times sorry for the bad ones and for a great six years.
  — Walden Green, Pitchfork, 31 Mar. 2025
• Not sorry for all the Curbed links; there’s a lot to read this week!
  — Kelsey Keith, Curbed, 16 Aug. 2019
• Back to Venezuela, and the Ferrari being in a sorry state.
  — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 15 Nov. 2022
• 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
• The mules have gone but the sorry state of the country’s roads persists.
  — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
• Over that sad-and-sorry spell in the first quarter, the Jazz bricked 21 straight shots.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 June 2021
• My old moped was in there too, filthy dirty, a sorry sight.
  — Martin Aitken, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
• These are the kind of fragrances that strangers will stop you on the street to ask about (sorry).
  — Wired, Wired News, 8 July 2025
• Our backs are against the wall and no one’s going to feel sorry.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2021
• Olivia Culpo wants to be his endgame…sorry, wrong team.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 9 Feb. 2024
• There isn't a part of me that wants anyone to feel sorry for me.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
• But this is the NFL and you just can’t feel sorry for yourself.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 4 May 2020
• Some of those starts were even with MBM—sorry, Garage 66.
  — Greg Engle, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
• Ina felt sorry for Marek, for his wrenched body and strange mind.
  — Ottessa Moshfegh, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• And the league certainly does not feel sorry for the Saints.
  — Luke Johnson, NOLA.com, 30 Oct. 2020
• Blair fans, sorry to break it to you, but headbands are not the star this time around.
  — Alexis Bennet, Vogue, 8 July 2021
• As 2020 careens to a close, few will be sorry to bid it farewell.
  — Brenda Wineapple, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2020
• But this isn’t the polished prep of the past—sorry, Blair Waldorf!
  — Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2024
• No one feels sorry for them when someone is hurt [with the Heat] or with us.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 18 July 2024
• The Needle had just popped him — sorry — for a second time in the first two days in full pads.
  — Mark Craig, Star Tribune, 24 Aug. 2020
• One thing's for sure: Last one to call dibs has to be Midge—sorry not sorry.
  — Emily Becker, Women's Health, 6 Sep. 2023
• It's spent roughly half of its life at full volume (sorry, neighbors), playing nearly every genre of music (except country, of course).
  — Joe Salas july 27, New Atlas, 27 July 2025
• And so his hand was basically forced to be like, ‘Oh, sorry, my bandmember has serious mental-health problems.
  — William Earl, Variety, 21 July 2025