Regretfully
"Regretfully" in a Sentence (10 examples)
We regretfully reject your offer.
Regretfully it is not possible.
I was invited last week as well, but it was late so I regretfully turned them down.
Many a gentleman of the old school has been provoked to remark regretfully upon the under-bred manners and bearing of even the better classes in the modern industrial communities; and the decay of the ceremonial code—or as it is otherwise called, the vulgarisation of life—among the industrial classes proper has become one of the chief enormities of latter-day civilisation in the eyes of all persons of delicate sensibilities.
Members of the jury, regretfully I must declare this proceeding a mistrial.
Regretfully, the Japanese representative was eliminated at the preliminary stage.
Oleg regretfully told Rima that her family was dead.
I regretfully admit that I don't love you anymore.
I can't make you see your own shortcomings, regretfully so.
So after learning a great deal about iron founding and much more about pike fishing, one regretfully took leave of a shop full of kindly characters and proceeded to a worse lot of odours in the brass foundry.
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