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

But anyone who panicked last April and sold stocks, rushing into safer havens, likely spent the latter half of 2025 regretting their decision.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 20, 2026

My mother kept looking over at him, worried he was already regretting marrying me.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025

“I’m Reynie Muldoon and this is Sticky Washington,” he said, shaking her hand and immediately regretting it—her grip was so strong it was like getting his fingers caught in a drawer.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart