What's the difference between grieved and sorry?

Grieved


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Grieve

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 'Snooper's charter': Theresa May faces calls to improve bill to protect privacy Read more Ken Clarke, the Conservative former home secretary, and Dominic Grieve, the Tory former attorney general, suggested there could be improvements to the new laws that overhaul the state’s surveillance powers.
  • (2) This study was undertaken at Yonsei University Medical Center to identify the crisis responses and nursing problems of patients who had been diagnosed with cancer, and changing patterns of grieving over time periods, and to analyse the effectiveness of follow up care through home visiting nursing.
  • (3) The son of the slain Afghan police commander (who is the husband of one of the killed pregnant woman and brother of the other) says that villagers refer to US Special Forces as the "American Taliban" and that he refrained from putting on a suicide belt and attacking US soldiers with it only because of the pleas of his grieving siblings.
  • (4) Grieve said the correspondence contains the prince’s “most deeply held personal views and beliefs” and disclosure might undermine his “position of political neutrality”.
  • (5) "We are providing consular support to his family at this tragic time, and we ask that the media respect the privacy of those grieving."
  • (6) The following year, JFK was killed in Dealey Plaza, becoming the lost father to a grieving nation.
  • (7) Grieve said: "It is quite clear, and has been clear for some time in a number of different spheres, that the enforceability of court orders and injunctions when the internet exists – into which information can be rapidly posted – does present a challenge.
  • (8) A concept for counseling families reaching from information, support during the process of grieving about loss of the elder's capacities up to psychotherapeutically oriented help for family members is briefly described.
  • (9) Gordon Brown today said he felt for the grieving mother who criticised him over a letter of condolence he sent after her son died in Afghanistan.
  • (10) This paper focuses on the choice of a sexual partner and pregnancy issues as symptoms of reworking established conflicts around self-valuation and abandonment by sibling and grieving parents.
  • (11) Backed by the cabinet, Grieve argued that disclosing the letters could create constitutional problems as the public could come to think that the prince had disagreed with government policies.
  • (12) In a gesture of astonishing openness, Giulio Regeni’s grieving friends and relatives handed over their phones and laptops to the Italian police.
  • (13) We should grieve and we should be angry, but we must not let grief or anger cloud our judgment,” he said.
  • (14) In a separate development, the attorney general, Dominic Grieve, has reportedly been asked by another judge to consider a criminal prosecution against a journalist who allegedly used Twitter to name a different footballer in breach of a privacy injunction.
  • (15) Grieving families should not have to campaign for years to get to the truth In my view, the IPCC previously hired far too many ex-police officers, compromising its independence.
  • (16) Nurses who are aware of the needs of grieving persons can help to facilitate the process, cushion the trauma of loss, and set the basis for a healthy grieving process.
  • (17) And when the grieving is done, that’s our purpose.
  • (18) Grieve, with the backing of the cabinet, has blocked the publication of the letters on the grounds that the public could read the letters and come to believe that the prince had disagreed with the policy of the last Labour government.
  • (19) In his attempt to justify the unjustifiable, Mr Grieve has clutched at a fragile constitutional doctrine and adopted a deeply dubious legal course.
  • (20) We grieve for all, but particularly for the 40 victims who called Australia home, including 38 Australian citizens and residents.

Sorry


Definition:

  • (a.) Grieved for the loss of some good; pained for some evil; feeling regret; -- now generally used to express light grief or affliction, but formerly often used to express deeper feeling.
  • (a.) Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful.
  • (a.) Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I’m very sorry.” Who is Billy Bush: the man egging on Trump in tape about groping women Read more Trump and Bush had been on a bus headed to the set of the soap opera Days of Our Lives, in which Trump was set to make a cameo.
  • (2) Israel’s president has told his Mexican counterpart that he was “sorry for the hurt” over a tweet in which the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, appeared to praise Donald Trump’s plans to build a wall on the US-Mexican border.
  • (3) Leicester looked a little sorry for themselves and, with their concentration down, United twisted the knife.
  • (4) If I go back to 1995 – and some started earlier, some a little later, but let’s take that as ground zero – I think we’re all sorry.
  • (5) We had a brief conversation and I said to him he was acting from high honour here, and I said how sorry I was this wasn’t happening in three or four years time..because Barry is a man of honour..and I think he is a very capable premier and I think he has been missed.” Asked whether he had ever met Nick di Girolamo , the prime minister said both he and Mr di Girolamo attended a lot of functions, and “I don’t for a moment say I have never met him but I don’t recall it.” But former federal Liberal MP Ross Cameron sounded much more sceptical about O’Farrell’s memory lapse when speaking to Sky News.
  • (6) I say ‘fuck sorry.’” Rudd, who addressed a breakfast in Sydney to mark the anniversary, said words must be followed up with actions.
  • (7) I’ve seen Ukip both at home and abroad, and I’m sorry to say they’re pretty amateur.
  • (8) But the sorry state of the economy is clearly the main worry.
  • (9) "I almost feel sorry for them," said Pauline Corton, who was checking out Radley bags in the County Arcade with 20%, 30% and 50% off.
  • (10) "We are very sorry if customers have not received their baggage and we will reunite them as quickly as possible."
  • (11) I used to go to meetings and people would say sorry about all the problems and the denialist president.
  • (12) Hermens went on to say that Aregawi “feels really sorry for all the people that she has let down in Sweden”.
  • (13) Every time I hear that someone has been injured by a bomb on the ground I feel very sorry.
  • (14) "In a way I feel sorry for him and I think he needs some sort of counselling as it is obviously very odd behaviour.
  • (15) I’m desperately sorry, says head who hired paedophile William Vahey Read more Investigators in the UK have already established that while Vahey was teaching in London from 2009 to 2013, teachers on four different trips reported his suspicious behaviour with pupils to the school.
  • (16) But while the imprisoned activists and their supporters are fervently hoping that the Queen of Pop will use her Russian platform (Olimpiyskiy stadium, which is a pretty big one) to make a strong statement in their support, so far all she's been able to muster in public is a remark that she's "sorry that they've been arrested".
  • (17) The Jedwabne massacre and Kaminski's line that "Jews should say sorry for killing Poles" during the second world war is by far the most important of the many contentious issues on this man.
  • (18) André Villas-Boas Villas-Boas was only 33 when he won the Europa League with Porto Gianluca Vialli Sven-Göran Eriksson Pep Guardiola You got… Perfection You hero You star You've done very well there You've done well there You've done OK there Sorry to break it to you but that's a bad score Come on.
  • (19) It is convention that private conversations with the queen should be kept off the record, and Cameron later said he was embarrassed and sorry about the incident.
  • (20) DN: Sorry, Julia, but depression is still – as you may know from the recent report from the European Brain Council, of which I'm vice president – the largest cause of disability in Europe.