Sentence examples for very regretfully from inspiring English sources

I'm representing Marlon Brando, who very regretfully cannot accept this very generous award [because of] the treatment of American Indians today by the film industry.

ERIC EFFRON 1973 I'm representing Marlon Brando, who very regretfully cannot accept this very generous award [because of] the treatment of American Indians today by the film industry.

Of course, there has been -- and will continue to be -- significant collateral damage; innocent Palestinians -- very, very regretfully -- have been killed in the bombing campaign.

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.

"I don't actually swear that much or when I do I don't do it very exotically," he says regretfully.

"With the permission of the family, and with much sorrow and a very broken heart, I regretfully inform everyone that Kaiser Carlile passed away earlier this evening," said club president Nathan McCaffrey.

"I did very little preparation," Donnelly recalls, regretfully.

"No, I'm afraid I can't get an account," I regretfully told the very nice book club organizer, who couldn't have been more understanding.

Presenter Roger Moore was left clutching the best actor prize as Sacheen Littlefeather explained Brando "regretfully cannot accept this very generous award" due to "the treatment of American Indians today by the film industry and on television and in movie reruns".

But here you have a book that we feel, regretfully, would be of interest to very few American readers," and "the basic subject matter and background is so remote that I could not encourage you to recast it from a practical point of view", and "there would not be a large enough audience for a novel of this kind".

He didn't simply say, "I'm not running," but penned a long, bloviating op-ed column about how America is so broken, how he could fix it, why "many Americans" have told him that it is his "patriotic duty" to run for president, and why he must regretfully let all those Americans down very badly.