Sentence examples for regretted when from inspiring English sources

This was something of an overbid, which he probably regretted when he saw the dummy.

Senator Jim DeMint is clearly herbal, at first blush appealing, particularly when you have a nasty hangover, later regretted when it sours your stomach.

(Hardy once wrote to Rider Haggard, after the death of Haggard's ten-year-old son, "To be candid I think the death of a child is never really to be regretted, when one reflects on what he has escaped").

All the gifts we are offered in life (as Marías himself is fond of pointing out) are fleeting ones, easily lost or ignored or undervalued and only regretted when they are no longer available to us.

One ambitious competitor chose to walk on stilts – a decision she may have regretted when she collapsed, split-legged, on to the floor to howls of sympathy from the audience.

But Tomalin quotes an astonishing letter of condolence that he wrote when Henry Rider Haggard, the adventure writer, lost his 10-year-old son: "To be candid, I think the death of a child is never really to be regretted, when one reflects on what he has escaped".

When Tommy and Leona first started the website in Oslo, they received a grant from the Norwegian government – a decision the authorities regretted when Tommy and Leona caused a stir by having sex on stage at a Norwegian music festival later that year, while a hardcore band called the Cumshots played along.

They've never written something they regret exactly, but one episode of South Park provoked a reaction they regretted: when they mocked Scientology's avariciousness and sci-fi theology, Isaac Hayes, a devout Scientologist and the voice of the South Park character Chef, quit the show.