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Example sentences for "sorry for"

  • The Lord never saw fit to send me a man I could care enough about to marry, or one who cared enough about me, but I couldn't look at the boy's face and not be sorry for him.

  • I was afraid, if I stayed round the hotel, I'd do something I'd be sorry for.

  • Tish said afterward she was positively sorry for him, he looked so crestfallen.

  • My eyes are a little dim, but you all appear young and happy; and yet I am sorry for you, very sorry for you.

  • Oh," moaned Ida, "I am almost as sorry for father's sake as for my own.

  • Van Berg made a gesture of contempt, but said to his friend: "Stanton, I'm sorry for you.

  • Don't tell mother I brought you the note, prince; I have sworn not to do it a thousand times, but I'm always so sorry for him.

  • Don't excite yourself; you seem very ill, and I am sorry for that.

  • Don't blush, prince; you make me sorry for you.

  • They listened very attentively and soon began to be sorry for Marie.

  • I believe, would absolutely turn her, which I am sorry for.

  • I am so fond of Julie that I should be sorry for her.

  • I am sorry for him as a man, but what can one do?

  • Some fellows do things just anyhow, without preparation, and then they're sorry for it afterwards.

  • Only I am sorry for my old wife and the children,' and the old man began to weep.

  • Wouldn't it be rather impertinent of me to say that I'm sorry for you?

  • Well, I'm sorry for him, and if he was shaved he wouldn't be so bad to look at, but .

  • If the ekka-driver ever finds it, and wears it, or gives it to his wife, I am sorry for him.

  • You'll live, and you'll be very sorry then that you weren't sorry for me.

  • I should like some one else to be sorry for me.

  • I'm sorry for you, Persis--and the girls.

  • And I think I wouldn't be sorry for it beforehand, if I were in your place, mother.

  • They will soon be among the things of the past," said the Major; "and I am sorry for it, for they are a beautiful and harmless bird.

  • Poor Charley," said Sam, "I am so sorry for you.

  • I am sorry for't: The man is a proper man of mine Honour: vnlesse I finde him guilty he shall not die.

  • I am sorry for thee, thou art come to answere A stonie aduersary, an inhumane wretch, Vncapable of pitty, voyd, and empty From any dram of mercie Ant.

  • For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

  • These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee?

  • There are two things that have happened to thee: who shall be sorry for thee?

  • Whose soul is according to thy own soul: and who, when thou shalt stumble in the dark, will be sorry for thee.

  • If thou have any thing, he will live with thee, and will make thee bare, and he will not be sorry for thee.

  • I have been robbed," said the officer; "I am sorry for that.

  • I am sorry for it, so much the worse, your humble servant!

  • I am sorry for it; he was a jolly fellow.

  • It was unlucky, and I'm sorry for it; I can't say more!

  • Do at least tell me it is nothing I should be sorry for,' she said anxiously.

  • But he told me because he could not help it; he was so sorry for you.

  • Coventry is of the caball with the Duke of York, and Bruncker, with this Denham; which is a shame, and I am sorry for it, and that Sir W.

  • I am sorry for you, because there is an end to all your hopes of advancement.

  • I should be sorry for you to think that of him.

  • The fellow told Nina's sister that I should be sorry for what I had done.

  • I mean, I understand that you're sorry for me, without that.

  • Sorry for her, that she had remained an essential child in a time that would tax the utmost maturity.

  • You're the only person in the world I'd allow to be sorry for me.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sorry for" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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