Sentence examples for sorry for something from inspiring English sources

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"It's hard for him to say he's sorry for something he didn't do," she said.

It's the fact that she is saying sorry for something for which she bears a degree, small as it is, of culpability.

Path said sorry (raising the question of why it needed to be sorry for something that obviously wasn't an accident; shouldn't it have just not done it in the first place?).

Writing in his weekly Sun column the presenter also attacked the BBC for urging him to apologise over the footage, complaining he could not say sorry for something he had not done.

Although Amy can now go through the motions of civility — she'll hug a restaurant worker just for finding the glasses she left behind, and say that she's "super sorry" for something she did — she's still hypersensitive and volatile, and the next thing you know she's crashing into the car of her former boss and screaming at him again.

There are different branches of Uncomms, including the Unapology, for when you're obliged to say sorry for something you don't regret; the Unimpression, by which you can convince people that you are competent and reliable, whatever the reality; and the Unpledge, the promise you have no intention of keeping.

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Hannah says she's sorry for writing something uninformed, something that hurt him.

"He writes a beautiful melody, five measures," the famous contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink complained, "and then he is sorry for writing something lovely and breaks off with a dissonance that racks you".

It was the first time I've ever said I'm sorry while paying for something.

At last this man, who spends all of his time feeling sorry for himself, has something to feel bad about -- and, at last, a magazine that wants to publish him.

Although notionally shocked and sorry for the victim, something in the woman's brutalised subjection excites a secret, unnamable sense of satisfaction, survival and even euphoria in these respectable blokes, which they can admit neither to themselves nor each other.

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