Sentence examples for feel contrite from inspiring English sources

I still feel contrite about that".

Toni certainly saw no reason to feel contrite.

Or he might cry, feel contrite, submit to a cuddle, then revert to venom and violence the instant he's tested.

Some white conservatives may be in no mood to feel contrite about the nation's racial legacy now that a black man is sitting in the Oval Office.

"I remember when I realized that I could apologize in writing for a problem and thus make the situation better," he said, "and the person I was working with couldn't see me and thus couldn't read my body language, that I didn't' really feel contrite," he said.

And now, seeing the rise of Trump, Schwartz feels contrite.

I have no idea whether Anthony Wiener or Tiger Woods or Eliot Spitzer or Bill Clinton truly felt contrite for their extra-marital adventures, as they claimed.

And though she said she now feels contrite that for years her music collection was made up mainly of items copied from friends — "I just had no money" — she is supporting the stores out of gratitude.

Even Tom feels contrite and tries to save Gatsby, while Gatsby delivers a remarkably incoherent speech about saving young men like him from older men like him ("What's going to happen to kids like Jimmy Gatz if guys like me don't tell them we're wrong?").

Bush seems to make it clear that his daughters are the primary reason he feels contrite.

So good, in fact, that he actually feels quite contrite at this point.