Sentence examples for if regrettable from inspiring English sources

It's not a moral or aesthetic failing but a natural, if regrettable, evolution.

"This shields the perpetrators and allows world leaders to shrug off sexual violence as an immutable — if regrettable — truth".

One could argue that arresting law-abiding people for trespassing there is necessary, if regrettable collateral damage.

Opponents of Mr. Erdogan's Justice and Development Party criticized efforts to portray the deaths as understandable, if regrettable, collateral damage.

Slowly, then, AIDS is being transformed from the Biblical plague of yesteryear into a normal, if regrettable, part of life.

The fact that some readers may discover the identity of a central figure is inevitable, if regrettable, in the age of the Net.

Given the perilous security situation in the lower-income regions of the world, these discrepancies are understandable (if also regrettable in view of their other pressing needs).

If a regrettable gaffe occurs, Ms. Beauman has an all-purpose solution: Pretend to yourself "vigorously, passionately, and with true commitment that the faux pas simply never happened".

Beyond the barbecue, there's a roster of forgettable if not regrettable sides and a lot of fried food: fried green tomatoes, fried pickles and fried chicken, both as fingers and as bird quarters.

Not wanting your child to be one of them is a perfectly legitimate parental aspiration, and it's understandable (if deeply regrettable) that parents develop an obsession with the phrase "as the crow flies", are forever getting out their tape-measure to see point-what-of-a-mile they live from a particular school, or send their kid miles across town to another.

Columnist Meghan Daum warns of a campus climate that "allows women (and sometimes men) to think they can reframe consensual — if possibly regrettable — sex into something more nefarious long after the fact".