Sentence examples for can be regrettable from inspiring English sources

However, the definition of marriage is flexible for straight people: the church accepts that divorce and remarriage can be regrettable necessities for heterosexuals, even when they are priests or (occasionally) bishops.

That would be regrettable".

But it would be regrettable.

It would be regrettable if that debate was stifled.

It may be regrettable this happened in a final.

Far from it: the tent he pitched in the 50's has attracted all sorts and conditions of bitter-enders, and the fringes of the right (like the fringes of the left) can be grim and regrettable.

However, I remain extremely uncomfortable with this notion that anti-semitic ranting can be conflated with routine regrettable drunken behaviour, when it's plainly not equivalent.

We can either meditate on why, in general, non-virtuous behavior is regrettable, or we can meditate on why a particular type of non-virtuous behavior, such as lying, is regrettable.

Having sex for the first time can be exciting, terrifying, poignant, regrettable but once it's over, it's over, right?

"This is regrettable that people's manners and behaviours can reach this point," Jubari said in Geneva.

"It is regrettable," Mr. Crone counterpunched in a statement, "but I can perfectly understand why James Murdoch felt the need to discredit Colin Myler and myself.