rue

in a sentence

You will rue the day you laid hands on Janos Slynt.  (source) George R. R. Martin, A Dance With Dragons, 2011

When I went home that night I says to Thomas, says I, 'Mark my words, Thomas, Marilla Cuthbert'll live to rue the step she's took.'  (source) Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables, 1908

"I haven't been properly dry since August") "— and we're going to make them rue the day they let that little bit of slime, Malfoy, buy his way onto their team."†  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1998

I give Rue some matches and she makes sure I have plenty of leaves in case my stings flare up again.†  (source) Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, 2008

It was these three huts that I associated with all my happiness, with life itself, and I rued the fact that I had not kissed each of them before I left.†  (source) Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, 1994

When I catch you—and find you I shall—I shall make you rue the day you were born!†  (source) Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book, 2008

He interrogated his sentinel of the Rues Droit-Mur and Petit-Picpus; that agent, who had remained imperturbably at his post, had not seen the man pass.†  (source) Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862

"That's a fair young lady to hand to a coach in the dark, Mr. Darnay!" he said, ruing his new goblet.†  (source) Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 1859

But since I see, that thou wilt here abide, And thus forslothe* wilfully thy tide,** *idle away **time God wot, *it rueth me;* and have good day.'†  (source) Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, 1350

"Thou saw'st thy child y-slain before thine eyen, And yet now lives my little child, parfay:* *by my faith Now, lady bright, to whom the woeful cryen, Thou glory of womanhood, thou faire may,* *maid Thou haven of refuge, bright star of day, Rue* on my child, that of thy gentleness *take pity Ruest on every rueful* in distress.†  (source) Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, 1350

Michel and Christiane's small apartment on the rue de Turbigo was filled with books and magazines.†  (source) Firoozeh Dumas, Funny in Farsi, 2003

I bespoke a room at a portside inn, and in the following days, there were many times that I rued my rashness, for it proved no simple matter to decide what course to follow.†  (source) Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders, 2001

She keeps telling us we're still dirty and if she has to come out to scrub us we'll rue the day.†  (source) Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes, 1996

I started noticing all these frightening things in Margaret's house: creepy masks, old swords, books with titles like The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Skull and the Hatchet.  (source) Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons, 1994

Poe is credited with originating the detective-mystery genre with his character Le Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin, who appeared in three short stories: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," ...  (source) Jennifer Chambliss Bertman, Book Scavenger, 2015