regards

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

They are petards, locally called kaxxa spanjola, designed to make noise and a small puff of smoke without anything visible in the sky.

From Slate • Jun. 6, 2026

As the creature who hoists men on their own petards in the ferociously feminist Frankenstein fable, Stone won her second Oscar.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2026

It’s just one in a handful of canny symbols in Greenfield’s new feature, a telling encapsulation of the mentality shared by her subjects as they hoist themselves by their own petards.

From The Guardian • Nov. 4, 2019

There are also two citations that quietly hoist Scalia and his fellow dissenters, Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Clarence Thomas, with their own petards.

From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2015

I have seen my cousin Gerald, but he will not let me have the petards unless he knows for what purpose they are to be used.

From The Cornet of Horse A Tale of Marlborough's Wars by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)