Sentence examples for sorry country from inspiring English sources

'sorry country' is not correct and cannot be used in written English.
It does not make sense in isolation and is too vague for most contexts. If you are looking for a phrase to express regret at a particular situation, you could use "I'm sorry to hear about (the situation)." For example, "I'm sorry to hear about the effects the drought is having on this country."

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Nor can they reasonably expect them to apologize for doing so, and this would be a sorry country if either side felt such an obligation.

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There's also Oregon's Rachel Harrington, an avid boxing fan hence the name of her backing band the Knock Outs, who deliver punchy (sorry) country-soul numbers and tender ballads.

Those contracts, given the sorry state of the country's electricity, could eventually be worth billions of dollars.

New Democracy, the paper admits, is "co-responsible" (with Pasok) for the sorry state of the country.

But to Italians, the situation is sadly predictable, and it speaks volumes about the sorry state of the country's political landscape.

In that speech, Clinton, with nineteen American flags behind her, focussed on Trump's crude and constant talk about the sorry state of the country.

Yesterday was all euphoria and patriotism — a chance to forget about the unemployment rate, the deficit, the oil spill and whichever political party you hold responsible for the country's sorry state.

A new right-wing coalition government in New Delhi decided to invest in highways, a logical decision given the sorry state of the country's roads.

Perhaps it's the sorry state of the country's prisons.

As an American living in West Berlin, I had befriended dissident environmentalists in the eastern half of the city and helped them publicize the sorry state of their country's air and water--an activity prohibited under the communist dictatorship.

As commercial hubs, these airports have inefficiencies that have a ripple effect throughout the country, and their sorry state deters visitors from using them as gateways to our travel destinations.

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