send regrets
Example Sentences
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His decision to send regrets underscored a lingering question: Should the event have been held at all?
From Washington Post • Apr. 30, 2022
Jerry Lee Lewis, 83, also had to send regrets after a stroke in March.
From Washington Times • Apr. 24, 2019
Adding to the guilt-free canceling is the assumption that we’re glued to our smartphones, which means that people often wait to the last moment to send regrets.
From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2012
“I—I——I guess you would take it seriously too,” she wept, “if you couldn’t go to the Captain’s dinner, if you had to send regrets, saying you were ill.”
From Nan Sherwood's Summer Holidays by Carr, Annie Roe
At the Party.—If one accepts an invitation to a card party she is supposed to have sufficient proficiency to play the game proposed with some degree of credit; otherwise she should promptly send regrets.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson
