How to Use rue in a Sentence

rue

verb

• I rue the day I agreed to this stupid plan.
• He must be ruing his decision now.
• And there will, of course, be teams who are left to rue their lot.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2022
• Rush end Jamil Muhammad rued what could have been a strip sack.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• And by the time the end of this Congress draws near, the GOP may rue not having a leader more like her.
  — Rich Logis, The New Republic, 12 Jan. 2023
• If the bills fail, Democrats may also rue their tactics.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 12 Oct. 2021
• Harvey could have helped his own cause with the bases loaded but didn’t rue stranding them.
  — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 20 Apr. 2021
• Seton Hall, among other schools, has some reason to rue the return of UConn.
  — Dom Amore, courant.com, 28 Oct. 2020
• And for those who rue the industrialization of the seaboard?
  — Elizabeth Royte, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2022
• Devoted fans of this pork operation rue the loss of the hams and sausage, but the Heil scrapple was the stuff of hog heaven.
  — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 13 Nov. 2020
• Its analysis has come after many flyers rued the fare rise.
  — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 14 June 2023
• Viard duly went to rue Cambon to meet Lagerfeld’s aide de camp, the patrician Gilles Dufour, who hired her on the spot.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 24 Nov. 2020
• Despite the close score, the Thorns were the dominant team throughout Saturday and will rue failing to put the game away by halftime.
  — Caitlin Murray, oregonlive, 8 May 2021
• After losing one of those squeakers Sunday, the Buffalo Bills might really rue the past week when the 2022 season is all said and done.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 7 Nov. 2022
• Jeff Zucker, then the network’s president, later rued the live rallies.
  — Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
• Mostly, though, Cincinnati will rue not being able to get Alabama off the field on decisive downs.
  — New York Times, 31 Dec. 2021
• The younger generation scoffs at the way their parents seem fatally, comically stuck in the past; the adults rue the fickle softness of their children.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 26 July 2021
• While some leaders rue the loss of those status markers, the great leaders recognize this as an opportunity to serve their team.
  — Julian Torres, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
• That’s yet another reason to rue the day the Supreme Court decided that corporations are people.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 3 Apr. 2023
• Prices have skyrocketed with sale after record-breaking sale, causing many a baby boomer to rue the day their mother threw out their baseball-card collection with the trash.
  — Christina Binkley, Robb Report, 30 July 2023
• There’s also much to rue and even despise about classic Hollywood, starting with its exclusions.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 July 2022
• Panicky investors like last year’s stock unloaders now rue their decisions.
  — Larry Light, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2021
• The Russian political strategists rued the difficulty of their task.
  — Shane Harris, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
• Since the world began confronting a global outbreak of monkeypox in the spring, the scientific community has had plenty of reasons to rue the fact that for decades this virus has been understudied.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 21 Oct. 2022
• The Arizona Coyotes had little time to rue Friday’s lackluster effort, but carried the same issues into Saturday.
  — Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 1 Apr. 2023
• In a decision that has been heavily scrutinised, and Australia might rue with hindsight, captain Pat Cummins, who had made all the right moves before then, resisted the temptation and decided to bat on.
  — Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
• The filmmaker must rue the day the masses were able to use artificial intelligence to create tribute content that mimicked his signature visual style.
  — Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 May 2023
• While Mercedes will rue only pitting its drivers once, Red Bull profited from superior tactics and secured its first double podium of 2021.
  — George Ramsay, CNN, 20 June 2021
• Critics still rue legalization, and dread the normalization of marijuana.
  — Robert McCoppin, chicagotribune.com, 16 Apr. 2021
• Russia's permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, warned that the cap's European backers would come to rue their decision.
  — Jamey Keaten, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024