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    Use "regretful" in a sentence

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    regretful


    1. The dark-haired Imperial watched the recruit run off, regretful for snapping at him and preoccupied with the latest developments


    2. Of course it is regretful and 28 too many for the war stopped in 1990, two years before this incident


    3. She nodded and twisted her face in a regretful grimace


    4. Municantir had returned to his nocturnal moth hunt and regretful meows came from him every time a moth laughingly escaped his paws in the air


    5. She had been ready for days with her stilted, regretful little formula


    6. Even in death Max was closer to the girl that now he yearned for with such regretful thoughts


    7. Adrinius peered at me one last time, as if deep in reflection, almost regretful contemplation


    8. He seemed a bit taken aback by this, if not a little regretful


    9. He never fully recovered from the regretful condemnation of having consented to the crucifixion of Jesus


    10. Oh, how I wish we did not, but we do,” she said softly, letting her head hang low as a regretful woeful sigh came slipping from her frowning trembling lips

    11. With cautious and somewhat regretful steps, she crept into the room, and there on the other side of the room between the bed and the dresser was a large dark outline


    12. Maybe he was quietly regretful inside, by not surfacing the issue when it first occurred as a child


    13. Once this was done, she limped out of the wheelhouse and, with a last regretful look towards the yacht where the two Americans were still fighting out ISIS fighters, went down to the weather deck, then headed towards the forward hold


    14. the pen, regretful that his son was repeating his


    15. depressed and regretful while eating that brownie or piece of lasagna


    16. that wide-eyed regretful grin of Peter’s and that wonderful line


    17. He didn’t feel regretful of this though, because despite the blame he placed on his actions he had said some time ago that his brother would end up being his own doom


    18. that time although I am forced by circumstances to kill but every time I think back, I will feel very regretful!” He unwittingly copied his Mentor Master’s mannerism


    19. If you kill without guilt, you will not feel regretful afterwards! At that time I was still young and when I listened to his explanations


    20. went even that far to beg me, if I had died, he would feel regretful forever

    21. exerted all his might therefore even though he feels regretful for his action but he did not hesitate to push opened the door and witnessed with such appalling at the


    22. was even more regretful that he had allowed them to enter


    23. "Damn" No-one heard as Death scowled in regretful jealousy from the shadowed corner of the room


    24. Regretful of the question, but torn to know the answer


    25. Those who are undergoing a stressful situation such as facing traffic congestion, emergencies, pregnant mothers who are experiencing labor pains and about to deliver, meeting deadlines, ensuring a smooth operations , suffer demotion or being fired by boss and others need to pursue relaxation training in order to have a clear mind and not be obstructed by hasty and regretful decisions


    26. I knew he must have been an appreciative and regretful husband, because no husband who did not appreciate and regret would go so far as to talk of his deceased wife as his late espoused saint


    27. We agree so heartily, with such comfortable, regretful sighs, when anybody tells us so; but with only one wretched sinner are we of a real patience


    28. Kiera was really beginning to feel regretful that she had taken up the challenge, but she remembered what Chance’s look had told her


    29. ” Abby said on a regretful note


    30. ” And as soon as he said it, he was already feeling regretful that he had

    31. I suddenly felt so guilty and regretful that I started to weep while Roy slid his arm around


    32. He was regretful now about having


    33. a „real' friend, while on the other he was regretful that he could not speak to him


    34. He is still our doctor, because he's regretful of his actions


    35. And Amy, in her exile, longed eagerly to be at home, that she might work for Beth, feeling now that no service would be hard or irksome, and remembering, with regretful grief, how many neglected tasks those willing hands had done for her


    36. “I felt confused, conflicted and regretful,” he told me in 2015


    37. All the same, Ralph was regretful


    38. Spell-bound and quivering with excitement, the Water Rat followed the Adventurer league by league, over stormy bays, through crowded roadsteads, across harbour bars on a racing tide, up winding rivers that hid their busy little towns round a sudden turn; and left him with a regretful sigh planted at his dull inland farm, about which he desired to hear nothing


    39. That morning Aunt Pitty had reached the regretful decision that she had better kill the patriarch before he died of old age and pining for his harem which had long since been After Uncle Peter had wrung his neck, Aunt Pitty had been beset by conscience at the eaten


    40. Now Sebastian had disappeared into that other life of his where I was not asked to follow, and I was left, instead, forlorn and regretful

    41. Once we had a title and had settled on the letter as our lyrical form, the variations came to us very easily: a child’s note, a postcard from a regretful lover, the reply of an eccentric aunt to a begging letter from scheming relations


    42. Since then the troubles of her married life had deepened, and the absence of other relief encouraged her regretful rumination over that thin romance which she had once fed on


    43. And there, aloof, yet persistently with her, moving wherever she moved, was the Will Ladislaw' who was a changed belief exhausted of hope, a detected illusion—no, a living man towards whom there could not yet struggle any wail of regretful pity, from the midst of scorn and indignation and jealous offended pride


    44. Everyone in Kinnakee was so mournful—so regretful about this freak accident—til they found out the man’s farm was going under


    45. Worse yet, better traders, regretful of a missed opportunity, can actually demoralize an entire firm if their regret spreads to all the other traders


    46. The seizure ripped through the cerebrum of the most revered man in Christendom, canceling all but one regretful thought: He would never know which virgin bore the divine child


    47. Serious, and regretful


    48. Portero gave a regretful sigh


    49. It seemed almost to be a regretful wailing, a muted screaming of a million voices, instead of a heartbeat, a dark wind blowing in a dark space and the chest cold and the sound cold to the doctor's ears and to his own heart, which gave pause in hearing it


    50. The princess looked at him, not grasping what he was saying, but cheered by the expression of regretful sympathy on his face



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    Synonyms for "regretful"

    bad regretful sorry adverse displeasing unfortunate wretched unlucky unhappy

    "regretful" definitions

    feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone