How to Use regrettable in a Sentence

regrettable

adjective

• It was a regrettable mistake.
• His decision to quit is regrettable.
• The deaths of Daunte Wright and George Floyd are deeply regrettable.
  — Jack Dunphy, National Review, 15 Apr. 2021
• That is regrettable, but what about the next 55 years of his life?
  — courant.com, 7 Mar. 2022
• All teams make regrettable trades, and the Giants have made their share of doozies.
  — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2023
• Have a look at the regrettable moment in the video below.
  — SI.com, 30 Sep. 2017
• Climate change, of course, plays a regrettable role in all of this.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 24 May 2024
• The aggrieved do not want to be told that mistakes were made or that the past was regrettable.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2022
• And to your point, yes, is there going to be a tradeoff in the short run, that's all else equal regrettable?
  — Abc News, ABC News, 30 June 2023
• Now, the Naughty in Nawlins hosts say hindsight is 2020 and that the event was a regrettable affair.
  — Sarah Ravits, NOLA.com, 1 Dec. 2020
• The Fool responds: Way, way too many people have made the same regrettable move.
  — The Motley Fool, Dallas News, 3 Sep. 2023
• The premise is one that plagues many a regrettable creation: May is an artist in crisis about her art.
  — Chicago Reader, 26 July 2017
• There are moments and habits of heart and mind on the American left that are regrettable.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2023
• Keane said the way the process of getting a meeting to take action on the hiring freeze had played out was regrettable.
  — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2023
• Some of the changes are excellent and some regrettable.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 21 Jan. 2024
• But Fields was far from the only Bears player to walk away from their third straight loss with a regrettable play.
  — Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 13 Nov. 2022
• Many regrettable fads from the early aughts are back, but one has been met with glee: Bennifer.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2021
• Whether this is by luck or error or even by silly, regrettable naiveté, these words have caught up to me.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 20 July 2021
• And it’s a predictable but regrettable call to arms for people with opinions who aren’t.
  — Jan Smoleński, The New Republic, 4 Mar. 2022
• The five-star recruit who started most of the Tigers' games the last three seasons had plenty of highs and lows on The Plains, a mix of the memorable and regrettable.
  — Ralph D. Russo, ajc, 18 Sep. 2022
• And then, well, there was some stuff in the early ’90s that was pretty regrettable in terms of my personal look!
  — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 19 Jan. 2019
• Take a look at some of Brit's best and, unfortunately, most regrettable looks of the past twelve months.
  — Jessica Booth, Redbook, 20 Nov. 2018
• Are there moments, are there habits of heart and mind, in the Republican past that are regrettable?
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2023
• Tom Johnson, who was the president of CNN at the time of the bombing, said the news media’s handling of the story was regrettable.
  — Marc Tracy, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2019
• Ainge kept them together a little too long, through the 2012 season, but not a day of it was regrettable.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2021
• The incident with the landing gear was regrettable, no doubt.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 19 Mar. 2014
• Still, this was a breaking point, regrettable if the triumph of the Reformation was the thing to be desired.
  — Marilynne Robinson, New Republic, 12 Dec. 2017
• Despite its regrettable title, Scream (why not 5cream??) ranks solidly as the third-place holder for the best of the franchise.
  — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 10 May 2023
• Compare him with Auriel, an itinerant street magician with a passion for wigs and a regrettable habit of not telling any of his lovers about the many, many others.
  — Talya Zax, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2024
• Go through each other's high school yearbooks and crack up at your mutually regrettable style choices.
  — Gena Kaufman, Glamour, 6 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Nov 2024