Sentence for regret | Use regret in a sentence

Regret sentence examples. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use regret in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for regret.

  • Do I regret it? (10)
  • I do not regret. (8)
  • Do I regret that? (10)
  • We shall regret it. (8)
  • She did not regret it. (4)
  • I should regret nothing. (22)
  • Her regret was disapproved of. (8)
  • Does she regret what she has done? (10)
  • His regret increased as he listened. (4)
  • Is that your only reason for regret? (8)
  • Believe me, Monsieur, I greatly regret. (8)
  • Yet you are not to suppose I regret it. (10)
  • Live in the future; regret nothing; leap! (8)
  • All England is writing to express regret. (14)
  • A thought of Nevil and a regret had done it. (10)
  • I knew I should regret that peaceful hostelry. (10)
  • The kiss was an accident that I bitterly regret. (8)
  • Harry, the poor will regret him in a thousand places. (10)
  • If in that letter there had been a word of complaint or even of regret! (8)
  • Lingering waves of sweetness and regret flooded his soul. (8)
  • My regret is not pecuniary: it is old-fashionedly moral. (16)
  • Tears burst from him: tears of rage, regret, selflashing. (10)
  • I never can sufficiently regret that I wrote to you at all. (4)
  • I regret to say that he stood less proudly for his nation. (10)
  • I regret to say that he stood less proudly for his nation. (22)
  • Winifred felt suddenly he might say things she would regret. (8)
  • How could she regret what she felt comfort to know was done? (10)
  • I deeply regret that our quarrel should have brought this about. (8)
  • This she did not regret; but she thirsted for the assuring look. (10)
  • Miss Denham on the contrary did not regret his active occupation. (10)
  • Perhaps it is best for me, since it leaves me so little to regret. (4)
  • When I give you my solemn assurance that you shall not regret it? (10)
  • When I give you my solemn assurance that you shall not regret it? (22)
  • There is, I regret to say, a difference between us and other nations. (10)
  • If she hesitated now she might be too late and regret it forever after. (12)
  • And that I am not Shahpesh I regret, So to inmesh the babbler in his net. (10)
  • So I was obliged, much to my regret, to have it done up in the right way. (14)
  • She could have heard without a regret that the heart was to cease beating. (10)
  • After which, she fell to a meditative walk of demurer joy, and had a regret. (10)
  • He leaped from life to life in one bound, without hesitation, without regret. (8)
  • The time may come when Harry will regret that so large a sum was parted with. (4)
  • I regret to observe to you that the respectable lady is incurably suspicious. (10)
  • And now his chief regret is, that he has caused his name to be coupled with yours. (10)
  • It was like a long debauch, from which I emerged with regret that it should ever end. (9)
  • And could we carry our selfish point with you, we should leave it without a single regret. (4)
  • The other circumstance of regret related also to Jane Fairfax; and there she had no doubt. (4)
  • With many expressions of regret I declined the invitation, unaware that to do so was treason. (7)
  • And looked back, with fond regret, to the bustles of Uppercross and the seclusion of Kellynch. (4)
  • The bed was open, and I saw with regret my revolver lying patently disclosed on the blue wool. (2)
  • Caroline alone expressed regret that she had not set eyes on him from the day she became a wife. (10)
  • Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. (4)
  • Adding to my sorrows and regret was the scarlet paper which confronted me when I entered the stable. (21)
  • He has told me so with a warmth of manner which spoke his regret at having believed the contrary himself. (4)
  • That made six people, Burnamy counted up, and he feigned a decent regret that there was not room for Mrs. (9)
  • No prospect of future happiness can ever perfectly exclude all regret at quitting our present state for ever. (6)
  • Afterwards she would regret her generosity, and abuse its recipient as though a trick had been played on her. (12)
  • When they were seated in the dining room, Sir John observed with regret that they were only eight all together. (4)
  • But the sun was low, she had to dress for the dinner-table, and she landed him with regret, as at a holiday over. (10)
  • But he would not let me feel very guilty, and I will not pretend that I had any personal regret for my good fortune. (9)
  • Yet, on the whole, these first weeks in her new home were happy, too busy to allow much room for doubting or regret. (8)
  • Not regret her leaving Highbury for the sake of marrying a man whom I could never admit as an acquaintance of my own! (4)
  • And there mingled apparently in her regret for Pere Brebeuf a confusing sense of his actual state as a portable piece of furniture. (9)
  • The regret always haunted him, more or less; it was part of his love; the loss accounted irreparable really enriched the final gain. (9)
  • Jackson murmured his regret for the inconvenience of his departure at this juncture, and Wright said nothing more for a few minutes. (13)
  • It is the regret and disappointment of a sister, who thinks her brother has a right to everything he may wish for, at the first moment. (4)
  • Mixed with pleasant recollections is the transient regret that you were not a spectator of the meeting of the Wilts and Denewdney streams. (10)
  • On the contrary, there was a rather taking undertone of regret that his enfeebled over-fat country would give her military son no worthier occupation. (10)

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Definition of regret:

  • regret, r-gret’, v.t. to grieve at: to remember with sorrow: | pr.p. regret’ting; pa.t. and pa.p. regret’ted. | n. sorrow for anything: concern: remorse: a written expression of regret. | adj. regret’ful, full of regret. | adv. regret’fully. | adj. regret’table. | adv. regret’tably. (0)

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