Verb (used with object) : to rue the loss of opportunities. ,I rue the day he was born.    From Dictionary.com. 

They rued they had ever left their slavery in Egypt.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE ISRAELI-AMERICAN KILLING MACHINE] Reference

"If you rued the enterprise now, I would go myself.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference

It rued the king that he had held his peace so long.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nibelungenlied] Reference

He gave it to his wife and rued it sore in after time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nibelungenlied] Reference

Mr. Gansman now awaits a fate he rued with Ms. Murdoch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insider Affair: An SEC Trial of the Heart] Reference

Hagen counseled the journey, but later it rued him sore.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nibelungenlied] Reference

Did the kickee, goodman rued fox, say anything important?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnegans Wake] Reference

'Well, thaa's never rued o'er joinin' Rehoboth, Malachi. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lancashire Idylls (1898)] Reference

She deeply rued that she'd been so horribly wrong about Led.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Wing]

Mr Tip rued the court application must be filed no later than.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

"You just have to learn to roll with the ebb and flow," she rued.    From Wordnik.com.  [Derrick K. Baker: Hey You, Mr. Self-Employed ... Meet The New Normal] Reference

This the lady rued, and he, too, suffered many pangs for love of her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nibelungenlied] Reference

Casanova rued what he had become, but did not exactly change his ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [Busy, Busy, Busy] Reference

I had forgotten to check if he was a smoker and now I rued that failure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The "Joys" of Renting] Reference

Gob rued the day he didn't retain the animation rights to Mr. BananaGrabber!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Morgan, meet Captain Fundman!!] Reference

She rued the system she had developed: the hard-copy backup to computer files.    From Wordnik.com.  [With No One as Witness]

However, he rued the day he'd asked Susan for that first date several months ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Texas! Lucky]

When asked if he rued that day, he smiled and said, "Not until recent elections.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics and policy: Tom Donilon's rise to national security adviser] Reference

Sooth to say, for all his soft speech, she feared him and rued the meeting of him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference

Then he sat down again; which his ancestors had always refused to do, and had rued it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Anerley] Reference

As Mundell made his remarks, he rued, “I wish George Shultz had stayed to listen.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shanghai the G-20 with a shadow] Reference

No, he would only have good silver dollars; and sadly he rued his want of good-nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Arabia] Reference

Therewith the strife was parted, so that no one fought, which mightily rued the queen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nibelungenlied] Reference

Their journey rued him sore; he weened that Rudeger wist it, and had told them the tale.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nibelungenlied] Reference

Certainly the fires are a horror, a terrible human tragedy to be rued and mourned by all of us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arthur Rosenfeld: Soul on Fire] Reference

Bitterly she rued her bravado; tried to atone for it by carrying on, in a voice raised to all but.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coat] Reference

He would wager that the men who had "almost" assaulted her rued the incident if they still lived.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Victorious]

Jillaine Gingerelli already rued her decision to apply makeup so she'd look nice for photographs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Record heat scorches tourists and may be responsible for cyclist's death] Reference

What I think she rued was that she was reacting to the situation, and so was not fully in charge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russ Wellen: Iron Butterflies: How Women Can Rule the World Without Compromising Their Best Qualities] Reference

Hasselbeck's scores gave him a career-high 27 TD throws this season, but he rued his two turnovers.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com] Reference

September 3, 2009 at 4:47 pm hao rued ub meh, yur kittehz iz bery byootful an fulls ub splortiblity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yes you can - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

How many a man has committed himself on a short acquaintance, and rued it all the rest of his life!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Box Hill and the Limits of Realism] Reference

VERDICT: Oh, how Brown must have rued the resignation of Sir James Crosby just before PMQs started.    From Wordnik.com.  [PMQs live blog] Reference

And her voice sounded strange and unkent to her in that solitude, and she rued it that she had spoken.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference

Roosevelt himself rued the decision in the late 1930s as a secondary depression was gripping the economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leave the New Deal in the History Books] Reference

"If the wicket is very dry it can turn a lot, which is obviously something we don't want to experience down there," rued Moles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moles unhappy with Napier pitch] Reference

If this fable were not true, if many and many of your young men of pleasure had not acted it, and rued the moral, I would tear the page.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Newcomes] Reference