Ruefully is an English word with synonyms like remorsefully. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Ruefully meaning
In a rueful manner; causing, feeling, or expressing regret or sorrow.
Synonyms of Ruefully
Using Ruefully
- The main meaning on this page is: In a rueful manner; causing, feeling, or expressing regret or sorrow.
- Useful related words include: contritely, remorsefully.
Context around Ruefully
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 1 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ruefully
- In this selection, "ruefully" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, castro, joke, recalled, slips, remarked and life stand out and add context to how "ruefully" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a little ruefully as we and have chuckled ruefully at this. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ruefully" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ruefully
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Not one,” Hernández said ruefully. (5 words)
He adds ruefully, "Life is a war zone, in my viewpoint. (11 words)
He sometimes alluded ruefully to his tendency to put on weight. (11 words)
At one point during the battering, Mrs May ruefully remarked to Conservative Remainer Anna Soubry that she barely seemed to have achieved one task that people claimed was 'impossible' before they were demanding she completed another one. (37 words)
Miriam, who is from Meath, recalled ruefully the day of the twentieth anniversary, where accolades were heaped, rightfully so she said, on the centre, including by the CEO of the Irish Wheelchair Association (IWA) Rosemary Keogh. (36 words)
It portrays the team spirit of the expedition and the harsh Antarctic environment, but also includes critical scenes such as Scott regarding his broken down motors and ruefully remembering Nansen's advice to take only dogs. (36 words)
Example sentences (11)
Not one,” Hernández said ruefully.
Luis Castro ruefully slips on his jacket with the haunted air of a man who’s just been told to clear his desk.
Without Saddleback providing winter jobs, the town has seen some émigrés, and its workforce has dwindled (you may hear lifties at other Maine hills joke ruefully about being “Rangeley refugees”).
Miriam, who is from Meath, recalled ruefully the day of the twentieth anniversary, where accolades were heaped, rightfully so she said, on the centre, including by the CEO of the Irish Wheelchair Association (IWA) Rosemary Keogh.
Our dean might have chuckled ruefully at this—college administrators complain that research productivity among tenured faculty drops off significantly in the last decades of their career.
Still, he says a little ruefully as we chat in a meeting room in the offices of 3AW, “I sometimes wonder what would have happened if I’d gone there”.
At one point during the battering, Mrs May ruefully remarked to Conservative Remainer Anna Soubry that she barely seemed to have achieved one task that people claimed was 'impossible' before they were demanding she completed another one.
He adds ruefully, "Life is a war zone, in my viewpoint.
He sometimes alluded ruefully to his tendency to put on weight.
It portrays the team spirit of the expedition and the harsh Antarctic environment, but also includes critical scenes such as Scott regarding his broken down motors and ruefully remembering Nansen's advice to take only dogs.
Madame Armfeldt is surprised, ruefully noting that she rejected love for material wealth at Fredrika's age.