Sentence examples for was almost sorry from inspiring English sources

"I was almost sorry I got it back.

(I was almost sorry; the windows lit up in the dark looked so fine).

So pure and brave a fish—I was almost sorry to see it come to this.

But when other guests at the mayor's dinner derided politicians, Ms. Nolan was almost sorry she had gone.

When the 71-year-old man approached the Trustco Bank manager in Peekskill on Jan . 16 wearing Groucho Marx-style glasses and a fake nose and mustache, he was almost sorry for the weapon he said was inside his folded newspaper.

After reading Whitmire's book, I am almost sorry that Fenty was not re-elected.

Now I am almost sorry I will never again see it for the first time.

It is a vision that feels eerily in tune, I'm almost sorry to say, with our own unsettled economy.

In about 45 minutes, you'll have a hearty, savory cobbler that is, I'm almost sorry to say, as easy as pie.

A veteran of the New York stage whose skill and integrity are by now beyond question, she is as good as ever here, I am almost sorry to say.

It was a joy to hear the two of them saying the craic was great, they'd enjoyed putting on the podium pants, but all the same they were almost sorry they weren't home in Skibbereen with their mates.