SORRY in a Sentence
Learn SORRY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
290 example sentences for SORRY, such as:
1. I'm sorry to trouble you.
2. I am sorry for what I have done.
3. I'm sorry, but it can't be helped.
4. I'm sorry, you've got the wrong number.
5. Don't say sorry, because we never mind.
2. I am sorry for what I have done.
3. I'm sorry, but it can't be helped.
4. I'm sorry, you've got the wrong number.
5. Don't say sorry, because we never mind.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of SORRY
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sorry
a. causing dejection
a. feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 He felt all the more sorry for the girl because misfortune had, in a sense, indentured her to them.
2 He was not sorry to assure himself of Jotham's neutralising presence at the supper table, for Zeena was always "nervous" after a journey.
3 I'm sorry, but it can't be helped.
4 If the Hales were sorry for him they would surely respond to his appeal.
5 But I'm sorry she didn't ask us to supper.
6 I feel sorry for her, but I don't like people I've got to feel sorry for.
7 "I am sorry I am so late," said Ellen, slipping her plaid shawl from drooping shoulders and handing it to Scarlett, whose cheek she patted in passing.
8 I'll stay here and I'll make them sorry.
9 And they'd all be sorry when I came back here to visit in a fine carriage and with lots of pretty clothes and a house of my own.
10 And I'd rather they'd both be dead than here at home-- Oh, darling, I'm sorry.
11 She wished she were dead, this very minute, then everyone would be sorry they had been so hateful.
12 Though Scarlett always went home to Tara with a happy heart, she was never sorry when the inevitable letters came from Pitty and Melanie, begging her to return.
13 Secretly she was very sorry for him, a feeling which would have amused him had he been aware of it.
14 She could be sorry for Melanie now, sorry with a faint contempt for her blindness, her stupidity.
15 Then you aren't a nice girl, Scarlett, and I'm sorry to hear it.
Example Sentence: (80 in 6 pages)
1 Mr Foster is sorry that he cannot accept your invitation to dinner.
2 I am sorry I must disapprove your action.
3 I'm sorry I punched him, it was a reflex action/response.
4 We're sorry to hear that your father's in hospital again.
5 With respect to your proposal, we are sorry to say that we cannot agree to it.
6 I am sorry for what I have done.
7 Who marrieth for love without money, hath good nights and sorry days.
8 I'm sorry I got your name wrong in my article.
9 I'm sorry I can't attend your party, but I have a meeting on for that night.
10 Don't say sorry, because we never mind.
11 I'm sorry, all the tables are booked tonight.
12 I'm just sorry about all the trouble I've caused her.
13 I'm sorry to trouble you.
14 I'm sorry, she's tied up at the moment.
15 I'm sorry, you've got the wrong number.