Sentence examples for few regrettable from inspiring English sources
Drinking should be synonymous with big laughs and a heightened sense of romance, maybe even a few regrettable slips of the tongue.
It would be nice if Sinatra had been a good guy with a few regrettable friendships rooted in Jersey simpatico — it was a lot worse than that.
Despite a few regrettable failures, the government's $36 billion loan portfolio has suffered losses of just 2 percent; in May, Tesla paid off its $465 million loan nine years ahead of schedule.
Jim Schwartz went from "the coach who may finally be turning the Lions around" to "the guy who turned the postgame handshake into the Uproar Festival mosh pit" in just a few regrettable seconds last week.
"I know that Chisora is brave and that he will have a proper fight with me, he's a proper fighter and I respect that about him," claimed Fury, who had made a few regrettable comments before the combination of sense and the lurking presence of Max Clifford made him issue an apology to Chisora: "Don't be a plonker, I wasn't serious," Fury offered.
It's Sunday afternoon at the tail-end of Halloween weekend, a lengthy sprawl of nonstop partying, sugar intake, other-things intake, and probably even a few regrettable decisions.
It is regrettable that so few people have acquired the emotional discipline to override this longing and that only a minority has learned to tolerate uncertainty and ambiguity as a normal part of life.
"Well-articulated exit strategies will increase confidence that there is a way out," it said, adding that it was "regrettable that so few exit strategies have so far been articulated".
Yet now Japanese fans of sumo are so accustomed to foreigners' dominance of the sport that when in January the reigning Mongolian champion, Hakuho, carried off his 33rd Emperor's Cup (beating not only his Japanese opponent in the ring but the formerly unbroken record of the legendary Taiho, from Hokkaido) only a few described the result as regrettable.
It is obviously regrettable that there are too few nurses on a ward, too few police, too few teachers and too little of every public service.
This is especially regrettable when just a few volunteer hours per week can make an enormous difference in a senior's life.
