apologetically
Example Sentences
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But they couldn’t do that, one doctor said apologetically, sighing deeply.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
Smiling apologetically, he tells us: "I'm keeping her waiting for you guys and this interview."
From BBC ● May 23, 2026
"I don't have any words", she said apologetically and with a smile.
From Barron's ● Apr. 9, 2026
But even aside from its profitability, many whites in the Antebellum South had come to see slaveholding not as a necessary evil, to be accepted apologetically, but as a positive moral good.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
He had waved a bit apologetically at the procession of small boys behind him, each staggering under the weight of several huge volumes.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
