apologetically

Example Sentences

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But they couldn’t do that, one doctor said apologetically, sighing deeply.

From Salon • May 27, 2026

"I don't have any words", she said apologetically and with a smile.

From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026

The firm's founder and chief executive, Clare Harris grins, almost apologetically at the gag.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2025

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

She felt immediately guilty about having disturbed him, and muttered apologetically that she only wanted to buy some lemons.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin