regretfulness

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• Vasquez retired last August and the city is in the midst of finding a new, permanent police chief – a process Weber said she is regretful she will no longer be a part of.

• It’s really easy to let go and get caught up in the moment, which could prompt you to post something regretful when you know it’s going to disappear in 24 hours.

• They were “regretful and embarrassed,” they said, that they didn’t previously take into account the Antebellum South’s associations with the pre-Civil War slavery era.

• I feel lucky but also regretful that my anticipated long day in the woods is over, with plenty of processing work ahead.

• It can rate your typing with qualifiers such as “accusatory,” “formal,” “encouraging,” or “regretful.”

• Neither did I feel either regretful about asking them to do something or grateful to them in advance for doing it.

• Is he truly regretful, or is that just the funniest thing to say about all that?

• The farmer watched her as she came up, and a deep regretful sigh burst from his lips.

• If my request is tiresome, do not hesitate to refuse; I shall be regretful, but not offended.

• Am feeling very sad, rather regretful—think what a nice man my lawyer is.

• For a year he exchanges regretful sighs with this other, and the money goes, and the hate increases, and she writes to him.

• When she reached her home again a flood of regretful sorrow overwhelmed her heart, and she wept bitterly.