Example Sentences

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"I don't have any words", she said apologetically and with a smile.

From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026

Instead of packing your mixture into a loaf pan — where it will steam apologetically in its own juices — hand-form it on a sheet pan.

From Salon • Mar. 11, 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

Taking off his cap, the man said apologetically, “We’re sorry to bother you, but you know, with all this rain, and my wife expecting ...well, we thought...perhaps you could help us out a little bit.”

From "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child" by Francisco Jiménez