ruefully in a sentence

1. “It is difficult to say,” he said ruefully.

2. “Blame the patient, thanks,” Mikhaila says ruefully.

3. The 49-year-old former world champion laughs ruefully.

4. He is no saint, as McCain himself would ruefully admit.

5. "Sorry, B'E, I didn't mean to wake you," Tom said ruefully.

6. I actually believed him dangerous, Grommash thought ruefully.

7. “But how about our investigation in London?” asked Phelps ruefully.

8. In fact, many remark ruefully that conflict is a “growth industry.”

9. In an email he had shown himself ruefully: “We hear you,” wrote Pichai.

10. the actor ruefully remarked that you are only as good as your last film

11. "Coitus interruptus is the name of the game when you're parents," he says ruefully.

12. On his departure on October 23, 1870, he observed ruefully, “Germany will be my grave.”

13. Where men and women look ruefully at their borders, they look enthusiastically for enemies.

14. Grace often smiles at me ruefully and sighs: “I do sometimes miss the feeling of being so special.

15. When I chanced to meet Major Iftikhar the next day he ruefully told me: “I burnt only sixty houses.

16. “This is not the first time there’s been controversy about HFC-23 emissions,” says Kieran Stanley ruefully.

17. Only to admit ruefully on the following morning that he had exaggerated, and then he would praise the Cardinal’s piety.

18. She continued to work for women’s rights, ruefully noting that the suffragettes hadn’t “changed as much as we hoped for.”

19. Ailes ruefully observed to Marion Horosko that Radio City Music Hall could succeed only when it became a movie theater with Rockettes.

20. The cardinal responded ruefully: “Your majesty, we, the Catholic clergy, have done our best to destroy the church for the last 1,800 years.