How to Use sorry in a Sentence

sorry

adjective
  • I'm sorry for your loss.
  • What a sorry state of affairs we're in now.
  • She was sorry to hear about their divorce.
  • I'm sorry for saying that.
  • I'm sorry that I wasted your time.
  • That's the sorriest excuse I've heard.
  • I'm sorry if I offended you.
  • Thank you for the good times sorry for the bad ones and for a great six years.
    — Walden Green, Pitchfork, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Back to Venezuela, and the Ferrari being in a sorry state.
    — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Over that sad-and-sorry spell in the first quarter, the Jazz bricked 21 straight shots.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 June 2021
  • My old moped was in there too, filthy dirty, a sorry sight.
    — Martin Aitken, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Our backs are against the wall and no one’s going to feel sorry.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Olivia Culpo wants to be his endgame…sorry, wrong team.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 9 Feb. 2024
  • There isn't a part of me that wants anyone to feel sorry for me.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Some of those starts were even with MBM—sorry, Garage 66.
    — Greg Engle, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Ina felt sorry for Marek, for his wrenched body and strange mind.
    — Ottessa Moshfegh, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
  • And the league certainly does not feel sorry for the Saints.
    — Luke Johnson, NOLA.com, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Blair fans, sorry to break it to you, but headbands are not the star this time around.
    — Alexis Bennet, Vogue, 8 July 2021
  • As 2020 careens to a close, few will be sorry to bid it farewell.
    — Brenda Wineapple, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2020
  • But this isn’t the polished prep of the past—sorry, Blair Waldorf!
    — Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2024
  • No one feels sorry for them when someone is hurt [with the Heat] or with us.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 18 July 2024
  • One thing's for sure: Last one to call dibs has to be Midge—sorry not sorry.
    — Emily Becker, Women's Health, 6 Sep. 2023
  • But that is a sick and a sorry state of mind to have to settle for, Meise reminds us.
    — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Yogurt hit the cocktail world with a splat (sorry) in 2013.
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 11 Nov. 2023
  • So sorry to be a killjoy, Hoosiers’ fans, but Michigan wins this one big.
    — USA TODAY, 7 Nov. 2020
  • That comes for all 32, and no one feels sorry for anybody in this business on the field.
    — Dallas News, 10 Nov. 2020
  • The sorry Sox need to stop selling 2022 as some kind of mirage.
    — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Oct. 2022
  • At the event, Arnn described the sorry state of American schools.
    — Emma Green, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • But because the sorry state of transplant medicine took us down.
    — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 19 Apr. 2023
  • His attempt to suddenly say sorry on Smackdown and ask Randy Orton to team up again was a surprising and fun twist.
    — Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2025

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