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Example sentences for "sorry"

Lexicographically close words:
sorrowful; sorrowfull; sorrowfully; sorrowing; sorrows; sors; sort; sorta; sortait; sortant
  1. I feel sorry for any stranded actors who ever have to walk these ties," complained Belle.

  2. And to tell the truth, she was not sorry to yield to their gentle compulsion, for although she was little the worse physically from her adventure, she had been under a terrific nervous strain that had taxed her heavily.

  3. It was a good scheme, I'm thinking, Jack, and we'll never be sorry we came.

  4. A sorry lot they looked just then, to tell the truth.

  5. I enjoy it very much indeed," she answered, looking up in his face, "and shall be really sorry when it comes to an end.

  6. I was sorry that I could not see Maysotta, as she might have effectually pleaded for one of her own sex.

  7. The chief appeared to be dumbfounded at my audacity; but, although he himself would not have interfered, I do not think he was really sorry that the prisoners had escaped.

  8. I need scarcely describe how Manley and my fair young sister met, but it was very evident that they were not sorry to see each other.

  9. I am sorry to see that you are hurt, friend," he said.

  10. Venetia shook her head, but was not sorry that their somewhat melancholy conversation should end in a livelier vein.

  11. I am sure, dear George, I should be very sorry for your sake, if you wished to be more,' said Venetia.

  12. In due time the Doctor heard from Herbert that his wife had gone down into the country, but was sorry to observe that Herbert did not accompany her.

  13. Mother,' said her son, 'I am sorry for what has occurred; mine was the fault.

  14. I am sorry for you, for this may get you into trouble.

  15. I am sorry for it now,' said the lady, weeping.

  16. I was sorry that I could not play my part; but I have led rather a raking life lately.

  17. I am sorry that my daughter should feel so keenly the want of a parent's love,' said her ladyship.

  18. What often takes place between me and my mother, but which I am sorry now has happened here, for I like this place, and should like to come often.

  19. I am sorry to say she, I mean Venetia, is devilish ill; she is, indeed.

  20. As I value those efforts of yours, and have been instructed and edified by them, I am proportionably sorry to find them treated in the language of disparagement.

  21. A sorry legacy to the world; though in their day they had done strange things!

  22. Anyhow, I'm not exactly sorry the instructions have been withdrawn.

  23. So I heard,' he said, 'and I am sorry it should have contained your pearls.

  24. I am sorry Lesley couldn't come this afternoon--it must have been dull for her at home!

  25. I am sorry I was not so successful in my request as--as my son.

  26. Riasantzeff at last understood the situation, and he felt so sorry for Lialia, that, clumsily enough, he turned the talk into another channel.

  27. Yourii felt sorry to go, but in accordance with his companion's suggestion he advanced to meet him, stumbling over rushes and splashing through the water which in the dusk was not distinguishable from dry soil.

  28. Christ was splendid; Christians, however, are but a sorry crew.

  29. In my opinion Christianity has played a sorry part in the life of humanity.

  30. He only felt sorry that he would never see anything again.

  31. Are you not sorry to have left Petersburg behind you?

  32. Yes, Christianity has played a sorry part; and the name of Christ .

  33. While it amused him, he yet felt sorry that it had occurred.

  34. This annoyed Yourii, and he felt sorry that Schafroff should read so badly.

  35. He had not understood Ivanoff's joke, but felt sorry not to have made it himself.

  36. I'm very sorry that you're going, my friend, but .

  37. I'm sorry for them, that's all," replied Sanine.

  38. Miss Ramsay has been to see me, and I feel sorry for the girl.

  39. I have suspected this," comments the poet, whose least noticeable characteristic was vanity; "but I was none the less sorry to hear him say so.

  40. Very sorry, very sorry indeed, but there is no Vote out of which we can get the pictures.

  41. We entered with extreme reluctance into the ghastly business, but once we started we soon made the German sorry that he had brought that element into the war.

  42. Indeed, I shall not be sorry to eat a piece of fresh venison.

  43. And you would not be sorry to go back, for one day, to your trade of a fisherman and to add this cetacean to the list of those you have already killed?

  44. For my part, I shall be sorry to see the end of a voyage which it is given to so few men to make.

  45. Professor, I am sorry for one of the best vessels in the American navy; but they attacked me, and I was bound to defend myself.

  46. We had run aground, and in one of those seas where the tides are middling--a sorry matter for the floating of the Nautilus.

  47. This ship is a masterpiece of modern industry, and I should be sorry not to have seen it.

  48. Are you sorry that destiny has thrown us into Captain Nemo's hands?

  49. At the first house, two women assured us that they were good Union people, and very sorry they had not a single vacant couch.

  50. He made literary pretensions, writing thin plays for the Richmond theaters, and sorry Rebel war-ballads.

  51. My friend, I am sorry to part with you, but there are laurels growing on the banks of the Potomac.

  52. For a time, he regarded our awakening him, with rebuke and caution, as a sorry practical joke.

  53. He said: "I am sorry my brother was shot; but he should not have joined the traitors!

  54. I am very sorry for your misfortunes; but if the Rebels must have one of us, I am very glad that it was not I!

  55. Nevertheless, I am heartily sorry to think that they have probably been lost.

  56. Perhaps Pullingo is, after all, sorry for having intended to desert us, and will still continue our guide," I observed.

  57. When I saw the bird, I was very sorry that it had been killed; for, notwithstanding its discordant voice, it is a remarkably sociable and useful creature, as we afterwards discovered.

  58. A sorry image one would say, yet one looked upon by its exhibitors with apparently the greatest veneration; they kneeling in a most devoted manner, going through a form of prayer, and sprinkling it with a white powder.

  59. He is sorrowful, he sheds many tears, the sorrow of his sins afflicts his heart; he is not sorry only, but terrified also at thoughts of them.

  60. God my dear, I very sorry am towards my heart of Ant' apotuta si sia pitana, apt' um soreto I have done very much ugly, thou me punish wilt taikisa pia humac tasch pia etonni tat.

  61. Having once begun he stumbled on, but half aware of how each word he uttered hurt her, eager only to have done with the whole sorry scene.

  62. We'd be mighty sorry to interfere with your work, but those small rooms always do go first.

  63. I'm sorry for her myself," declared the man on the other side as he hung the returned key on its board.

  64. Seriously, I'm sorry if I seemed to be deserting.

  65. But I couldn't help feeling a bit sorry for her," he persisted.

  66. Awfully sorry it's happened that way, Miss Hastings," the man behind the desk was saying.

  67. Archie was sorry to lose him, for Leary was an appealing old fellow, and he had hoped for a chance to coax from him some reminiscences of his experiences.

  68. She thought Archibald Bennett a nice fellow and she was sorry for him, but no more and no less sorry than she would have been for any one else who failed to find the world a pleasant place to live in.

  69. I'm sorry to be late, but we had to change a tire.

  70. I'm only sorry your name had to be brought into it.

  71. The only thing I'm sorry about is missing hearing pop swear when he found I had skipped.

  72. And I'm sorry I played you for a sucker; honest I am.

  73. It was as though she had reached a decision not wholly unflattering and might be a little sorry for her earlier attitude.

  74. I had never seen your brother until we met in Maine; he was of the greatest service to me; I was in sorry plight when he picked me up.

  75. The detective was sorry he had gone into the business.

  76. I am sorry I have nothing better to offer you," said Mr. Fogg to Fix.

  77. When you feel sorry for a man--I remember you began by being sorry for Lawrence North!

  78. Mr Varian is a brooding, self-contained sort,--I feel sorry for him.

  79. Don't go to feeling sorry for married men.

  80. I'm glad you say so, sir, for though I was sorry for her, she was a terror for peevishness and fretting.

  81. But that's not at all an unusual thing," put in North, who felt sorry for Eleanor and wanted to relieve her all he could from the grilling fire of Dunn's questions.

  82. Sorry to trouble you, Miss Varian, but I have to ask you some very definite questions.

  83. I think it was fine,--and I'm only sorry for poor Mr Varian who had to bear the weight of his secret all alone through life.

  84. In his introductory remarks he said he was pleased with his Yorkshire descent, and was very sorry that Mr. Batty, who was to tell sometime of Yorkshire at the present day, was not present.

  85. I am sorry to hear that the crop of hay has failed so much the last season, which must be a great injury to that part of the country.

  86. He went on foot, leaving his horse, a sorry nag, to settle with me and the other claimants.

  87. The adventurous trio were not at all sorry to be taken safely to their own gateway by Bevis, but all the same they felt a little disappointed that they had no real peep at phantom forms in the lane.

  88. You don't even look decently sorry or very sympathetic!

  89. But eyeing with reproach her folk She told them 'twas a sorry joke.

  90. They themselves were busy with the work of the coming term, and not sorry to be free from his continual interruption of their preparation time.

  91. We loved it, and we were dreadfully sorry to leave.

  92. Sorry I couldn't come before," said Tots.

  93. I am sorry to say that I think very seriously of the injury.

  94. I am so sorry to give you all this trouble," she murmured.

  95. I am sorry you thought it necessary to be rude to him.

  96. I'm sorry if it annoys you, but I was created that way.

  97. Then I'm sorry I cannot tell you, and you certainly wouldn't get the information by having me locked up, but perhaps I can meet you in another way.

  98. The girl stood still, trembling with anger and confusion, and Kenwardine felt sorry for her.

  99. Sorry it may be a day or two before we can send more of your coal.

  100. He had come at some risk and seemed sorry for her, but he had urged her to stay in the house, as if she expected her father to return.

  101. He had applied for the post at Kemp's suggestion, after the latter had given him a few lessons in locomotive work, and had since been sorry that he had obtained it.

  102. That you may have," said the beggarman, "but it is a sorry wish too.

  103. He gave Boots an old broken-down nag; but Boots did not care a pin for that, he sprang up on his sorry old steed.

  104. I dare say it was a sorry looking sight and a sore back.

  105. That you may have," said the beggarman, "but it is a sorry wish.

  106. I know that I have not many months to live, and I sha'n't be sorry when the end comes.

  107. I am sorry I did not bring the letter with me.

  108. I am sorry for the death of your aunt, but I really don't see what it has to do with you and me.

  109. Then I am sorry to say you cannot go over it.

  110. Everyone, sorry for the misfortune which condemned this lovely woman to a sickbed, treated her with respect.

  111. I don't mind, though I am sorry to leave Maraquito.

  112. I went to see Juliet," replied Cuthbert, not sorry that the meeting had taken place, "but I hear she is out of town.

  113. We are sorry not to print your requests for exchange, but that department of our Post-office Box is so very crowded that we can not give space to addresses which have been already published, unless the exchange offered is of some new article.

  114. We working men will be sorry to loose him, but we think he ought not to be missed promotion, as he is a good fellow.

  115. I'm sorry I am so late, and have missed your performance.


  116. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sorry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    afraid; apologetic; ashamed; base; beggarly; cheap; cheerless; cheesy; common; contemptible; crummy; degrading; demeaning; deplorable; despicable; detestable; disappointing; discontented; disgraceful; disreputable; gaudy; grim; guilty; gutter; humiliating; ignoble; infamous; inferior; joyless; low; mangy; mean; melancholy; meretricious; miserable; outrageous; paltry; pathetic; penitent; penitential; pitiful; poor; regretful; remorseful; repentant; rubbishy; rueful; sad; scandalous; scrubby; scurvy; shabby; shamefaced; shameful; shocking; shoddy; sorrowful; sorry; terrible; threadbare; trashy; twopenny; unbecoming; unhappy; unsmiling; valueless; vile; wistful; worthless; wretched