How to Use apology in a Sentence

apology

noun
  • My apologies for the show last night.
    — Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The apology in full can be found here.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 24 Feb. 2026
  • There was no sense of apology around it.
    — Bill Schiffmiller, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
  • And don't hold your breath for that apology.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 6 Feb. 2026
  • That was what the apology was about?
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
  • But this apology wasn’t mine to take.
    — Beth Lew-Williams, New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The city’s apology hadn’t healed the wound.
    — Beth Lew-Williams, New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2025
  • So apologies for cutting that short.
    — CBS News, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Many replied that the apology was not enough and that their trust had been breached.
    — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 19 Feb. 2025
  • So, apologies for cutting that short.
    — CBS News, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Coins meant for rice or kerosene slid across the counter and came back white rum hot as apology.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 19 May 2026
  • And apologies mean nothing when no work is done alongside them.
    — Meg Pillow july 31, Literary Hub, 31 July 2025
  • The apology like Chekov’s gun at last.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
  • But so many of the apologies are for other, more amorphous things.
    — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 17 July 2023
  • Leo’s apology is a start, but much is left undone.
    — Laura Washington, Mercury News, 9 June 2026
  • The apology was not for shutting down the event.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026
  • My apologies to those who have won something; the masses don’t.
    — Norman B. Gildin, Sun Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The key is to remember that apologies aren’t one-size-fits-all.
    — Prachi Gala, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Again, no apologies to his wife or his family.
    — Jon Root Outkick, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • My apologies on the delay of today’s send.
    — Alex Connor, USA Today, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The apology didn’t sit well with some critics.
    — David Bauder, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Laurie offered his apologies in a lengthy tweet.
    — Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 10 June 2026
  • The fallout has prompted apologies from high places.
    — Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The hat was given to the boy, and apologies to the family.
    — Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
  • But there was no apology about anything.
    — Armando Salguero, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Based on that update, some of us may owe the space toilet a bit of an apology.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Again, our apologies for a long first day for some of our students and their families.
    — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Time can heal all wounds, but sometimes so can a simple apology.
    — Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 28 May 2026
  • Whoops, that was my worst-case scenario for the Niners, apologies!
    — Grant Brisbee, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025
  • In most cases — not all — sounding a note of apology helped.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 19 Sep. 2025

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