Sentence examples for regretfully but from inspiring English sources

I say, regretfully but emphatically, no.

(I panned it regretfully but firmly in a review Salewicz brands "sniffy").

Luckily, I had no such concern – there was absolutely no way I'd make the newly imposed deadline and thus I became part of a group of competitors who had to back down regretfully (but secretly gladly) to the half marathon.

While watching the ABC competition show "Wipeout" when it premièred six weeks ago, I became at moments a truly happy idiot, and I could hear my brain cells, one after another, packing their suitcases and walking out of my head, saying regretfully but firmly, "I'm sorry, I just can't live here anymore".

The incident had been alluded to in the pop media, and when I had brought it up with him months before (for an article which was never published), he had discussed it and acknowledged the race of his victim, regretfully but openly.

She spoke of leaving Earl Blackburn not regretfully, exactly, but with a kind of cold wisdom about the possible pointlessness of the gesture that people three times her age don't often achieve.

However, make sure to delete any racy photographs you regretfully uploaded, but don't delete the account.

In a sharp blue puffy vest and perfectly fitting jeans, he was walking purposefully but regretfully toward the elevator, telling his friend how much he loved that one jacket, but the fit just wasn't quite right.

But, regretfully, the conditions have not ripened yet.

The editor expressed interest but regretfully told me that there were simply too many complaints to publish.

But: "Regretfully, that information was not fully communicated throughout the care team," the hospital's chief quality officer said.