Example Sentences

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And, really, all you can ask of anyone is to apologize and to have them understand why they are apologizing.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2022

The organizers of a fundraiser that featured teachers on their hands and knees grabbing for dollar bills at a junior hockey league game in South Dakota are apologizing after the event drew criticism.

From Fox News • Dec. 14, 2021

If you have apologized without understanding what you are apologizing for, then your apology doesn’t mean much.

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2021

That is the issue soccer has to address: not that players are apologizing, but that they feel the need to do so.

From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2021

Ah, it is easy to see you are apologizing for Virginia, and I must confess that once or twice she did almost shake my self-possession a little by her agitation.

From Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion by Tucker, St. George