Sentence examples for Ruefully from inspiring English sources

"Yes, making the front page was a surprise," she said ruefully.

"That was conveniently ignored as well," he noted ruefully.

Asked about his famous description of Eurosceptics as "bastards", he remarked ruefully: "What I said was unforgivable".

"Everything is in ruins," he says shaking his head ruefully.

Jo Ball, 47, from Sunbury, south-west of London, wearing a straw hat with a union flag tied around the brim, was ruefully watching the screen – now showing an empty court – as her friend packed up their picnic things.

Everybody laughed ruefully about how this was easier said than done.

He ruefully acknowledged the difficulty of coming up with such an agreement.

He chuckles ruefully and looks up from the table, his eyes calm.

He noticed ruefully that a few days earlier Adria Richards had herself tweeted a stupid penis joke.

"I remember when My Night With Maud was shown at Cannes in 1969," he says ruefully.

"It was a lovely thing we had in our grasp," Simeone said, ruefully.