rues
- present tense form of rue (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Shane Manogue, the owner of a construction and maintenance company, claims he is owed at least £20,000 and said he "rues the day" he met de Min.
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026
Until that point, Skye rues that she had lived like an adult since childhood, the inevitable consequence of entering Hollywood as an adolescent and lacking conventional parental guidance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2025
The Hook’s founder, Hawes Spencer, rues the sudden demise of his old paper’s historical record.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2022
He rues the disallowed goal, but is pragmatic about the referee’s decision.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 24, 2022
This dame declines—a third repines, and fades, like the rest, away; Her lot she rues, whom a Rookwood woos—cursed is her Wedding Day!
From Rookwood by Ainsworth, William Harrison
