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How to use contrite in a sentence

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It was a dramatic change in tone, a contrite president uncharacteristically admitting a major failure.
I sobered immediately, contrite at forgetting the seriousness of the conversation.
You might have thought that Leonora would be just calmly loathing and he lachrymosely contrite.
It was striking, although its tone was less contrite than last week's recantation.
There's nothing wrong with putting your hand up, accepting that you've made a big mistake and saying sorry in an honest, contrite declaration.
I am truly contrite, penitent, repentant, remorseful and steeped in the tears of my regretfulness.
We will be discerning, and when failing to discern, genuinely contrite, but we will give no quarter to our enemy.
In a few years, we may find a more professional Crown Office as well as a more contrite justiciary.
I just act polite and a bit contrite and seem to get off with warnings, always.
The typist smiles to himself as the story returns like an apologetic lover, penitent, regretful and contrite.
The following morning a very contrite, and hung-over rep made straight for Sunny to apologise profusely for his behaviour of the previous night.
Prisons are designed to transform a regretted crime into contrite behavior through penalties and punishment.
He knew he was supposed to be feeling suitably contrite and sorry, but there was nothing.
I will say that Dolly was contrite over the affair, almost apologetic in fact.
And so he does not drop to his knees, he is not contrite, he does not sit in the church with the grieving parents and wives and children.
Some were contrite, and apologized directly to the families of those they had murdered.
He is very contrite and so sorry and we hug and he tells me he loves me and is so sorry and also is crying.
And, while contrite, she very coolly shrugged her shoulders over the whole thing.
I am immensely contrite, and I am sorry for the damage that I've done.
Compare and contrast this contrite pose with the self-same penitent jailbound all over again last year as a result of felling two motorists during a wee spell of road rage.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Blessed, a thousand times blessed, will be the outpouring of a contrite heart.
So Remus listened to Romulus and began to be less contrite in his home-letters.
He often sat with her now, watching her for hours, puzzled and anxious, but not contrite.
The promise of the indwelling and the quickening of the Holy One is to the humble and contrite.
Therefore, sire, your Majesty sees that they are come, quite contrite and repentant, to offer you their excuses.
A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
The old chief seemed contrite after his debauch, but did not mention it.
He sorrows now, repents, and prayes contrite, My motions in him, longer then they move, His heart I know, how variable and vain Self-left.
As you have taken up the cross, and become a follower of good and an eschewer of evil, I trust I shall see you before the altar, with a contrite heart and a meek spirit.
He was instantly contrite, all soft humility, ears laid back with pleadingness for forgiveness and protestation of a warm throbbing heart of love.
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