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Regretted in sentence

128 examples of Regretted in a sentence

I was thoroughly scared and regretted that I got what I asked for.
When I first saw this movie I regretted spending my money on the ticket.
When I first saw Disturbia I regretted spending money on the ticket.
antonio baderas is high in my list of today's most promising directors and this film shows the perspectives he has as a director.. any way you should go see this movie and don't let its rating stop you from watching it because it almost did it to me and now i realise how i would have regretted had i not rented this movie instead of an other
I rented this joke in a moment of insanity and regretted it ever since.
I wondered while I was watching it if either of them ever regretted being in such a bad movie.
Mandy said she regretted leaving Honus, but never mentions her husband, Mr Young.
for this DVD, then something's wrong with you (I bought it for $9 used and regretted it).
I'm secretly convinced that these people severely regretted the life-endangering efforts they made once they got to see the finished product.
I bet Romero really regretted this part of the original NOTLD (with good cause) since there has was no mention of this in the remake.
He might have regretted it a few times to have appeared in it, but I guess the salary wasn't too bad.
In a 1970 interview the director said he greatly regretted that he never got to make the picture in Cinemascope as he had planned.
I think this is the first movie I've ever regretted watching.
For the first part of this film, I regretted having missed some of the cool decrepit sites depicted in the movie when I was in the Long Beach area years ago.
This viewer regretted that a marvelous story, worthy of a master filmmaker's hand, was wasted, as it is unlikely that anyone will ever attempt a remake.
The influence may be regretted, but at least it is registered.
It was briefly independent (for five days) in 1960 after the British withdrawal, before throwing in its lot with the formerly Italian south, a decision which its people have regretted ever since.
The catalyst for what came to be known as “Barricades Week” was an interview published in the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung with the parachute general Jacques Massu, in which he said that part of the army regretted having called de Gaulle back to power, did not understand his policy, and was disappointed that he had become “a man of the left.”
Nevertheless, Khrushchev regretted his lack of courage and wished he had used his time to push his "thaw" ahead, so that even political death would be optional.
The Germans, for example, regretted having agreed to joint fiscal expansion at the Bonn summit, because reflation turned out to be the wrong objective in the inflation-plagued late 1970s.
Walser’s stance amounted to a desperate call to allow his country to shape a new national identity – one that reflected its resolute repudiation of fascism and adoption of democracy, rather than its highly regrettable (and regretted) history.
While he has publicly regretted the errors in British intelligence about Saddam Hussein, that is merely a way of shifting the blame from the government to the intelligence services.
Most told the researchers that they were motivated by a desire to pay off their debts, but six years later, three-quarters of them were still in debt, and regretted having sold their kidney.
Winston Churchill famously regretted overseeing the United Kingdom’s catastrophic return to the gold standard in 1925, when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer.
During the chaotic years of Boris Yeltsin’s presidency, it was perhaps understandable that Russians regretted their loss of great power status.
Egyptians now fear an outcome like that in Algeria in 1992, when the military scrapped elections and sparked a bloody civil war, or in Pakistan in 1999, when General Pervez Musharraf led a widely celebrated – and soon regretted – coup against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Humanity’s Stake in GazaAmman – Wasted time is always to be regretted.
And, although Dawkins later regretted calling his gene “selfish” (he says that “immortal” would have been better), his choice of adjective was certainly best adapted to maximizing sales of his book at that particular time.
He found fault with the doctor, and regretted that he could not have a celebrated Moscow doctor; so Levin understood that he was still hoping.
He said he greatly regretted that his duties prevented his spending the summer with his family in the country, which would have given him the greatest pleasure; and he remained in Moscow, visiting the country occasionally for a day or two at a time.
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