apologetically

Example Sentences

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

From Salon • May 27, 2026

The Korean president wrote back apologetically, saying that she had inquired into the issue, but BTS was unable to accommodate more shows in Mexico during its world tour.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 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 paused his rolling and winced apologetically at me.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda