apologetically
Example Sentences
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"I don't have any words", she said apologetically and with a smile.
From Barron's ● Apr. 9, 2026
Instead of packing your mixture into a loaf pan — where it will steam apologetically in its own juices — hand-form it on a sheet pan.
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2026
But even aside from its profitability, many whites in the Antebellum South had come to see slaveholding not as a necessary evil, to be accepted apologetically, but as a positive moral good.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
“I got set hair,” says Garcia on our video call, somewhat apologetically.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2025
“Dad keeps making that speech about serving the country,” Brinker said apologetically, “I wish to hell he wouldn’t.”
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
