Example Sentences

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You are suddenly grateful for those panes of glass; you may also think, perhaps self-reproachfully, of the distance and closeness of what we watch on television and computer screens.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2012

I have done him wrong, self-reproachfully thought Captain Delano; his apparent coldness has deceived me: in no instance has he meant to offend.

From The Piazza Tales by Melville, Herman

"Can you ever forgive me for bringing you out in such weather as this?" begged Alice, self-reproachfully.

From The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound Or, The Proof on the Film by Hope, Laura Lee

Why," he replied, self-reproachfully, in his mildest voice, "I find, do what I can, I have at bottom a combative spirit that will rise upon occasion.

From Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces. by Stephens, Robert Neilson

"And it was my fault," he added self-reproachfully.

From Denis Dent A Novel by Hornung, Ernest W.