"regret" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

regret sustantivo

verbo + regret
Kolokacji: 6
express regret • feel regret • voice regret • show regret • send one's regrets • ...
adjetivo + regret
Kolokacji: 41
only regret • deep regret • great regret • big regret • real regret • ...
(1) only, slight, little
Kolokacji: 3
(4) greatest, major, fleeting
Kolokacji: 3
1. bitter regret = gorzki żal bitter regret
2. terrible regret = straszny żal terrible regret
3. painful regret = bolesny żal painful regret
4. poignant regret = przejmujący żal poignant regret
  • In the last weeks the heat of Adrienne's anger had cooled, leaving a poignant regret.
  • She felt a brief, poignant regret; Sunstar!
  • Melisendra, her bright hair covered by the gray hood of a leronis, reminded him, suddenly and with a stab of poignant regret, of Melora.
  • But he had no very poignant regret.
  • He waited for her with impatience, and saw her pass out of the dark hut and disappear in the brilliant sunshine with poignant regret.
  • But loneliness no longer pained her; the solitude had become suddenly peopled with vivid, poignant regrets, shouting loudly their indictment and their appeal.
  • If they allowed themselves any personal thoughts at that moment, it was only a poignant regret for what might have been.
  • He shook his head sadly, and with a look of poignant regret on his face.
  • There was poignant regret in Wilde's voice.
  • It even caught the eye of ditKaolin, who smiled slightly, then shook his head with an expression of poignant regret.
(6) personal, vain, infinite
Kolokacji: 3
preposición + regret
Kolokacji: 8
without regret • with regret • of regret • to one's regret • for regret • ...

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