APOLOGIZE in a Sentence

Learn APOLOGIZE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

149 example sentences for APOLOGIZE, such as:

1. I apologize most humbly, Scarlett.
2. I made my apologies and left early.
3. He sent a grovelling note of apology.
4. A word of apology might not go amiss.
5. 'I suppose I must apologize,' he said.

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 Meanings and Examples of APOLOGIZE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
apologize
 v.  beg or pardon
Classic Sentence: (107 in 8 pages)
1  The boys were enchanted, as she had intended them to be, and they hastened to apologize for boring her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  You could make him apologize for being a cur and forgive him so sweetly that he would hang around trying to kiss you a second time.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  Melanie did not even apologize for her crossness but went back to her sewing with small violence.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
4  If anyone had ever told me that you could be so ill bred, Melly-- No, I will not apologize.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
5  I apologize most humbly, Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LI
6  But she could not accuse him now, could not rage at him, demand fidelity or try to shame him, any more than she could bring herself to apologize for accusing him of Bonnie's death.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LX
7  She noted that he did not apologize for it, as Kennicott would have done.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
8  But I do think you ought to apologize to poor Erik Valborg.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
9  He waited as if he expected the enemy to suddenly stop, apologize, and retire bowing.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
10  He really understands tenderness, said Connie, trying to apologize for him.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
11  I endeavoured to apologize for the accident, but it was evident that these books which I had so unfortunately maltreated were very precious objects in the eyes of their owner.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
12  "I must really apologize, Hopkins," said Sherlock Holmes.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
13  We must apologize for having intruded upon you, Professor Coram, and I promise that we won't disturb you until after lunch.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
14  'I suppose I must apologize,' he said.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In II
15  I wanted to explain that I'd hunted for him early in the evening and to apologize for not having known him in the garden.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
Example Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
16  A word of apology might not go amiss.
17  My client accepts the formal apology without prejudice to any further legal action she may decide to take.
18  His apology took the edge off her anger.
19  The President's speech was an effective apology for his foreign policy.
20  He sent a grovelling note of apology.
21  She threatened to take the magazine to court if they didn't publish an immediate apology.
22  We have consulted our lawyers and hope the editors will publish an apology.
23  But a simple and straightforward apology would have been better.
24  The consequence of those measures will be the best apology for my conduct.
25  I think your pert and impudent remarks call for an apology.
26  In his apology, Mr. Williams said that he had been on a different helicopter, behind the one that had sustained fire, and that he had inadvertently “conflated” the two.
27  In his public apology tour last week, Donald Graham, the family scion who sold the newspaper and related assets to Bezos, said he could not in good conscience continue to lose his shareholders' money.
28  The mayor is apologizing, saying he's deeply sorry for a lapse of judgment.
29  It's a familiar charge from the conservative fringe, that Obama is somehow different and doesn't view America as an exceptional paragon but is obsessed with apologizing for its failings.
30  I made my apologies and left early.