Sentence examples for like regret from inspiring English sources

Then they fade like smoke, or a bit like regret.

We'll think with something like regret Of all the jolly friends we met; The jokes that we remember yet Will once again revive.

In a recent study I conducted with Prof. Karen Zheng, we found that as consumers have become more strategic about purchases, behavioral motives like regret and availability misperception are significant factors and should play a key role in pricing strategy.

"No, I was thinking I'll probably put something together now, put it on the internet for my core audience to check out," he says, sounding wistful – not for nothing did Jay-Z say of him: "Like all great comics he knew how to hide deeper emotions between the punchlines, emotions like regret and loss".

Some of these studies even revealed the neural basis for so-called counterfactual outcomes, which are closely related to emotions like regret.

Remorse is like regret – and there's a good expression to describe exactly that bad feeling you get when you realise you don't really need or want the thing you've bought.

I'm the kind of person who doesn't like to regret things so I went to New York and I went around all the ad agencies, photographers, stylists.

It was like regretting his lack of suspicion when she first mentioned her months in the hospital.

But lamenting change is like regretting the weather – futile and destructive.

It was like regretting his failure to have been warned by her shyness, her diffidence, and the handwriting that looked like the marks of a claw.

Other alterations include Jay-Z changing a lyrical mention of Cristal to Dom Pérignon and Jay-Z's band "spruc[ing] up tracks like 'Regrets' to add more energy".