rue
Example Sentences
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As they discuss the niceties and textual flaws of the classics they love as much as life itself, Stoppard’s playfulness is tinged with rue; the older man cannot prevent the younger’s heartbreak to come.”
From Los Angeles Times
"Why did they forget me?" rued Cano, one of hundreds of women affected by a breast cancer screening scandal in the southern region's public health system that has shocked the country.
From Barron's
Wallace rued the fact that progress and violence kept such close company, a contradiction embodied in the exquisite new technologies for killing.
He sat in the car with his fingers inside his visor as he rued the likely damage to his title hopes.
From BBC
It’s become more fashionable recently to rue the results of American global leadership than to call for another century of it.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
