How to Use apologetic in a Sentence

apologetic

adjective
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  • Still, the apologetic man finds a way to help them all.
    — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2022
  • Weiss took the matter up with the school and said the teacher was apologetic.
    — Jeremy Beaman, Washington Examiner, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Lyons refused to take a breath test at the barracks and was apologetic to the troopers.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2021
  • Binh was apologetic for the things that have transpired.
    — Erik Lane, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The officer talked to the neighbor, who was apologetic and offered to pay the $276 bill.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 29 Jan. 2020
  • Take a firm grip on the leash, lean back as if the dog is about to pull you forward, and tilt your head to one side with an apologetic shrug.
    — Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2020
  • The problem for apologetic states in part is a legal one.
    — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 31 May 2021
  • The fact that music, like a lot of things of beauty, can be so torn apart, and stolen from us, by dark forces… Robert was very apologetic.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Stevens was apologetic at times on the line with Reneau before her death.
    — The Washington Post, oregonlive, 31 Aug. 2019
  • So Campbell knows what comes next — an apologetic phone call from the league office.
    — Dave Birkett, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2021
  • Plus, the driver was nice and apologetic, Baptiste said.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2022
  • However, in his texts to Porter the next day, McWhorter’s tone was apologetic.
    — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2021
  • Netflix sent out an apologetic tweet, and later promised the reunion would drop on April 17 at 12 p.m. PT.
    — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The banks tend to be apologetic, but essentially say their hands are tied.
    — Monika Pronczuk, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • When that failed to quell fan anger, the company’s tone became more apologetic.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The driver, who was not identified, got out and was apologetic.
    — Journal Sentinel, 10 May 2023
  • Ryan, who doesn’t recall Keith at all, is abashed and apologetic.
    — Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 4 May 2022
  • Daria said to the dishevelled woman, then threw an apologetic glance at the dogs and hurried to add that the dogs were wonderful, too.
    — Lara Vapnyar, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Under threat of the #MeToo movement, Jacquot dares an all-apologetic Casanova biopic.
    — Armond White, National Review, 16 July 2021
  • Frank Linn is almost apologetic about the name of his pizza, which tells you next to nothing about what will land on your table.
    — Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2020
  • The brand was apologetic and paid her for the unexpected overtime.
    — Elizabeth Denton, Allure, 19 Sep. 2023
  • In a follow-up post on April 7, Kahle was more measured about the new library rules, almost apologetic.
    — Noam Cohen, Wired, 20 Apr. 2020
  • This apologetic writer’s hair was a bit wet and disheveled from the shower because of a time-zone mixup.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2021
  • About the creation of such empires, Emerson is not apologetic.
    — Mark Edmundson, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
  • The customer emails from Southwest Airlines struck an apologetic tone this week.
    — Dawn Gilbertson, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Here, the design is half-heartedly bold and quasi-apologetic.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 June 2021
  • One professor sent her class an apologetic email backing out of plans to teach in person.
    — Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2020
  • The work that the apologetic discourse of law and economics does in justifying the status quo has been starkly revealed by the crises of the last decades.
    — Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books, 28 Jan. 2020
  • It had been left behind in Boston, an apologetic JetBlue agent told the Colberts.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
  • When Armenta’s parents, taking a page out of the Sandmann playbook, threatened to sue, Deadspin updated the article further and appended an apologetic statement to it.
    — Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023

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