be sorry for
Example Sentences
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“If she feels she has to do one more cycle because she needs to be sure that she will not be sorry for not trying, we will give her the chance.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
Instead, she remembered Jaffe telling her, “‘If you did a perfect variation and didn’t have a good interpretation, I would be sorry for you.’”
From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2023
“While he may now be sorry for the choices he made and the consequences of those choices, he’s still responsible for them,” Carew said of Kenjar.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 18, 2023
And he won’t say sorry for that, because his grandpa taught him he shouldn’t be sorry for anything.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2022
“You’ve got nothing to be sorry for, Chip. There was nothing you could have done.”
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
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