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
JB held out his hands apologetically, a particularly pitiful gesture with his wrists bound.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
