regretting

Example Sentences

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As in the less conclusive first season, it feels engineered to deliver the characters to happy, or relatively happy, endings, and to send viewers out not regretting their investment of time.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

"I will not go home regretting not trying, I will do everything in my power to be in that starting gate."

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026

The upshot: People can sometimes end up regretting sharing their stories.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 23, 2025

Wall Street has bet repeatedly that Argentina would break its cycle of fiscal crises, only to end up regretting it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

One of the movies he had sneak-watched once was a movie about killer birds, and now he was regretting ever checking it out.

From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds