How to Use sorry in a Sentence

sorry

adjective

• I'm sorry for your loss.
• What a sorry state of affairs we're in now.
• She was sorry to hear about their divorce.
• I'm sorry for saying that.
• I'm sorry that I wasted your time.
• That's the sorriest excuse I've heard.
• I'm sorry if I offended you.
• Back to Venezuela, and the Ferrari being in a sorry state.
  — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 15 Nov. 2022
• Over that sad-and-sorry spell in the first quarter, the Jazz bricked 21 straight shots.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 June 2021
• My old moped was in there too, filthy dirty, a sorry sight.
  — Martin Aitken, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
• Our backs are against the wall and no one’s going to feel sorry.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2021
• Olivia Culpo wants to be his endgame…sorry, wrong team.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 9 Feb. 2024
• There isn't a part of me that wants anyone to feel sorry for me.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
• Some of those starts were even with MBM—sorry, Garage 66.
  — Greg Engle, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
• Ina felt sorry for Marek, for his wrenched body and strange mind.
  — Ottessa Moshfegh, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• Blair fans, sorry to break it to you, but headbands are not the star this time around.
  — Alexis Bennet, Vogue, 8 July 2021
• But this isn’t the polished prep of the past—sorry, Blair Waldorf!
  — Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2024
• No one feels sorry for them when someone is hurt [with the Heat] or with us.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 18 July 2024
• One thing's for sure: Last one to call dibs has to be Midge—sorry not sorry.
  — Emily Becker, Women's Health, 6 Sep. 2023
• But that is a sick and a sorry state of mind to have to settle for, Meise reminds us.
  — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
• Yogurt hit the cocktail world with a splat (sorry) in 2013.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 11 Nov. 2023
• The sorry Sox need to stop selling 2022 as some kind of mirage.
  — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Oct. 2022
• At the event, Arnn described the sorry state of American schools.
  — Emma Green, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
• But because the sorry state of transplant medicine took us down.
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 19 Apr. 2023
• And with all of the drama the league saw on Week One (sorry Jets fans!), there’s no telling what this week’s games will look like.
  — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2023
• These and other sorry facts have long been known, though.
  — John Loughery, Washington Post, 29 July 2022
• In the grind of a long baseball season, here’s the exact number of teams that feel sorry for the Padres: 0.
  — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 July 2022
• Joe Biden and the Democrats are feeling very sorry for themselves.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 1 June 2022
• Or the rather girthy (sorry) long-necked avocados that were one of the first fruits to take off in views.
  — Antara Sinha, Bon Appétit, 20 Dec. 2022
• Please be aware of its many deficiencies and sorry in advance!
  — Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 16 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 18 Feb 2025