regretting

Example Sentences

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As in the less conclusive first season, it feels engineered to deliver the characters to happy, or relatively happy, endings, and to send viewers out not regretting their investment of time.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

"I will not go home regretting not trying, I will do everything in my power to be in that starting gate."

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026

In the long term, though, you may end up regretting the purchase.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 31, 2025

Wall Street has bet repeatedly that Argentina would break its cycle of fiscal crises, only to end up regretting it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

The children froze, their wide eyes roving the shadows, surely regretting venturing into such a dark wood with their pathetic human vision.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman