Voorbeelden van rue

• The reforming conductor's efforts were in vain; thus 'rue', an old-fashioned literary word for regret.

• They rue the sociolinguistic impact of in-migration, "invasion," and "penetration" (135-36).

• Viewing the books in the show, one might rue the loss of color in favor of a greater profusion of plates.

• In other cases, we may be left with fanciful speculation - leopard's bane, goat's rue, toadflax.

• We shall live to rue the day that we ever allowed so much of that heritage to disappear in the path of the bulldozer.

• But it has happened and many are ruing it.

• I regard the whole matter as a deeply misconceived and misguided exercise, and one that we shall rue as time goes on.

• He may rue the day when he dispensed with that flexibility.