Get to know Sorry better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like dark or blue.
Sorry in a sentence
Sorry meaning
- Regretful or apologetic for one's actions.
- Grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone.
- Poor, pitifully sad or regrettable.
Synonyms of Sorry
Sorry vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Sorry
- The main meaning on this page is: Regretful or apologetic for one's actions. | Grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone. | Poor, pitifully sad or regrettable.
- Useful related words include: bad, dark, blue, sad.
- Possible Dutch translations are: pardon?, wat zegt u, wat zeg je.
- In the example corpus, sorry often appears in combinations such as: sorry for, sorry to, sorry sorry.
Example sentences (20)
All of us who are here know that when I became Governor, the first thing I said to the Igbo was ‘I am sorry, I am sorry on abandoned property.
He came to meet me with a sweatshirt with ‘I’m sorry’ drawn on and he was playing Sorry by Justin Bieber.
She asked him why he had done what he did, and he replied, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, that was a mistake”.
So I wasn’t sorry, and many many people I know weren’t sorry, that Saddam had gone.
The announcement of “Sorry Not Sorry” comes after Lovato went viral online after revealing that she was once again comfortable using she/her pronounce once more, after saying that she was feeling more feminine now.
Another proposed change includes the introduction of “Sorry Business Leave”, which would allow Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders an additional three days off per year to conduct “sorry business”, a cultural practice of mourning or bereavement.
Hines fellow judge Kyle Sandilands added: “Sorry, sorry.
Lea said she was sorry for not getting to know Maria for who she is and it really does seem like she is sorry for her actions on the show.
As Kate brings up "everything going on in the news" and tells Randall she's "sorry," he asks what she's truly sorry about.
Earlier, he had said “Sorry, Sorry” in the dock, looking towards his wife’s parents.
Sorry, but not sorry, screw me once, there will not be a time to screw me again.
The “Sorry Not Sorry” singer went on the explain that she attributes much of her confidence to the KarJenners, who’ve always embraced their hourglass figures.
What I really want is for her to say sorry with my name because I feel like just saying sorry publicly, I don’t feel the sincerity.
Andrew Castle, who competed alongside Rhodes on Strictly Come Dancing in 2008, tweeted: "So very sorry sorry to hear of the death of Gary Rhodes.
Asked by Tom Bradby, in the ITV interview, if he would now apologize to the country for his actions, Cameron replied that he was “deeply sorry about all that’s happened”—but he notably did not say that he was deeply sorry for it happening at all.
Don’t get the hype, sorry/not sorry.
He told the committee: 'I'm deeply sorry about this failure and I'm deeply sorry for the distress we caused to millions of customers who booked holidays with us and who were on holidays with us.
I am sorry to my daughter Sophia, and Georgia, and I am sorry to my husband Will.
John Connor has to go back in time to… sorry, sorry, I’ll get it right this time.
Kate (she/her) says sorry a lot for someone who is not sorry about the amount of strongly held opinions she has.
Common combinations with sorry
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- sorry for 48×
- sorry to 25×
- sorry sorry 16×
- so sorry 16×
- sorry that 15×
- was sorry 14×
- i'm sorry 14×
- feel sorry 13×
- am sorry 11×
- sorry about 9×