Sentence examples for regretfully failed from inspiring English sources

Last week, the Illinois House regretfully failed to vote on the marriage equality bill because it was short of the number of votes needed for passage.

Correction to: British Journal of Cancer (2008) 99, 1874 1883; doi: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6604740 During final submission of this paper, the authors very regretfully failed to acknowledge some of the support given to them during the completion of their study.

The teary wonder at nature and humanity that comes from watching anthropomorphised lamps fall in love and causes one to skip from the cinema, leaping over a puddle of yeah-that-was-definitely-vomit, to shrug regretfully at the guy who failed to nick your wallet outside Wasabi, and to fall asleep with a magical sigh, and to dream.

The talks failed, and, in the years since, many Tibetan leaders have looked back regretfully.

("Fail again, fail better").

Fail, fail, fail, fail.

"What a great way for a comic to go," Smith says regretfully of the recent incident.

"We can't go backward," said one waiter regretfully, acknowledging an overcooked burger.

Regretfully, exultantly.

Regretfully, Ash.

Regretfully, John Vorwald.