Sentence examples for instead sorry from inspiring English sources

Instead (sorry, cynics) we got this: a masterpiece in gonzo pop that is weird, original and derivative at the same time and, by a distance, the album I returned to most this year.

But 24 hours later it had all gone horribly wrong: the first message from the relaunched TSB.co.uk, so keen to say "Yes", was instead "Sorry, internet banking is currently unavailable".

Tami Reiss, the creator of the Just Not Sorry app, says she is a big believer in saying thank you instead of sorry.

Instead of: "Sorry for losing all your retirement savings".

Instead of: "Sorry for ruining Thanksgiving for the second year in a row".

Instead of: "Sorry for taking away your reproductive rights and other fundamental freedoms".

Instead of: "Sorry for destroying this once joyful marriage with my years of lying and infidelity.

A ewe refuses to come when Rebanks and his sheepdog round up the flock for feeding; she skulks by a tree instead, looking sorry for herself.

No attempt to actually examine centre and margin and compare them across parties; instead, this sorry act of positioning, in which the political centre is associated with truth, common sense and realism.

SNP MSP Sandra White described Mr Murphy's apology to voters on Saturday as "somewhat opportunistic" and called for him to instead say sorry for backing the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

In return the US offers up such irritant gems as the "least worst option" for what we might call the "best of a bad bunch", or " my bad" instead of plain old "sorry".