Example Sentences

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He dismissed the threat early on and continues to say it will disappear, minimizing the illness even as he has rued its deadly effects.

From Washington Post • Aug. 7, 2020

I can tell you he has rued the work he made about it ever since.

From Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

She married a London man, who came here shooting, married him out of spite, and has rued it many times if the tales are true.

From Thurston of Orchard Valley by Dunton, W. Herbert