apologetically grin
Frequency: 4.00.5 per million words
to grin in a way that shows you are sorry
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Examples (10)
- He bumped into the table, spilling the water, and apologetically grinned at everyone.
- "My fault," she said, grinning apologetically as she picked up the dropped files.
- The waiter, realizing his mistake, could only apologetically grin and offer to get a new dish.
- Whenever he forgot someone's name, he would just apologetically grin until they reminded him.
- Apologetically grinning, he explained that he had eaten the last piece of cake.
- She held up the shrunken sweater from the laundry and grinned apologetically at her husband.
- The child, caught with his hand in the cookie jar, apologetically grinned at his mother.
- I was late for the meeting and could only apologetically grin as I slipped into my seat.
- He tried to fix the broken vase but only made it worse, so he just stood there grinning apologetically.
- "I seem to have brought the wrong book," the student apologetically grinned.