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.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SORRY
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.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
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.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
3  I'm sorry, but it can't be helped.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
4  If the Hales were sorry for him they would surely respond to his appeal.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
5  But I'm sorry she didn't ask us to supper.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
6  I feel sorry for her, but I don't like people I've got to feel sorry for.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
8  I'll stay here and I'll make them sorry.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  And I'd rather they'd both be dead than here at home-- Oh, darling, I'm sorry.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
11  She wished she were dead, this very minute, then everyone would be sorry they had been so hateful.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
13  Secretly she was very sorry for him, a feeling which would have amused him had he been aware of it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
14  She could be sorry for Melanie now, sorry with a faint contempt for her blindness, her stupidity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
15  Then you aren't a nice girl, Scarlett, and I'm sorry to hear it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
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.