Sentence examples for sounded rueful from inspiring English sources
She sounded rueful and honest.
Looking back on the culture in which "Poison" was incubated — one in which art could seem like a matter of life and death — Mr. Haynes sounded rueful.
She'd been in the apartment since the 1960s, but – she sounded rueful – there'd been no balconies then.
A founder of PLoS, Michael Eisen, a cell biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who is a a forceful advocate for "open science," sounded rueful about that paper in an e-mail message.
Lyle's muddled mindset was clear for all to see after the European Open, when he sounded rueful about his original actions: "I feel a lot healthier and should somebody break a leg or something, then I would be prepared to play in the Ryder Cup if Tony Jacklin wants me".
He laughs in manner that doesn't sound rueful or abashed so much as delighted.
He still sounds rueful – even when remembering the assurance he and Cook had shown.
She sounds rueful and sweet, though the song, "Tail & Mane," has already made it clear she's pursuing her love on a stolen horse.
Gingrich sounds rueful when he thinks back to the pounding he took during his first week as a candidate, when he got into trouble with conservatives for criticizing the entitlement-reform plan offered by his friend Paul Ryan. "It was the excuse to go after me," he told me.
If McCullin sounds rueful, then that's because for the past half century he has risked his life as a photojournalist recording conflicts around the world.
