How to Use rue in a Sentence

rue

1 of 2 verb
  • I rue the day I agreed to this stupid plan.
  • He must be ruing his decision now.
  • Jays fans will rue that near-miss for years.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Nov. 2025
  • And there will, of course, be teams who are left to rue their lot.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2022
  • But the United States will rue this.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 20 May 2026
  • Rush end Jamil Muhammad rued what could have been a strip sack.
    — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Seems like a move Baltimore will rue.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Harvey could have helped his own cause with the bases loaded but didn’t rue stranding them.
    — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 20 Apr. 2021
  • On the flight home from Philadelphia, the Rams had much to rue.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2025
  • England would come to rue the miss even more just over five minutes later when Spain took the lead in classic tiki-taka style.
    — Jamie Barton, CNN Money, 27 July 2025
  • Panicky investors like last year’s stock unloaders now rue their decisions.
    — Larry Light, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Seton Hall, among other schools, has some reason to rue the return of UConn.
    — Dom Amore, courant.com, 28 Oct. 2020
  • Larson also addressed the near-misses and rued the chance to get a better result than 12th.
    — Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Devoted fans of this pork operation rue the loss of the hams and sausage, but the Heil scrapple was the stuff of hog heaven.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Jeff Zucker, then the network’s president, later rued the live rallies.
    — Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
  • And by the time the end of this Congress draws near, the GOP may rue not having a leader more like her.
    — Rich Logis, The New Republic, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Van de Looi always knew Summerville would make Feyenoord rue their decision to sell him.
    — Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
  • While some leaders rue the loss of those status markers, the great leaders recognize this as an opportunity to serve their team.
    — Julian Torres, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Mostly, though, Cincinnati will rue not being able to get Alabama off the field on decisive downs.
    — New York Times, 31 Dec. 2021
  • There’s also much to rue and even despise about classic Hollywood, starting with its exclusions.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 July 2022
  • Qatar’s injury time equalizer left the European nation ruing big chances that were wasted.
    — Ben Church, CNN Money, 18 June 2026
  • Despite the close score, the Thorns were the dominant team throughout Saturday and will rue failing to put the game away by halftime.
    — Caitlin Murray, oregonlive, 8 May 2021
  • That left Pep Guardiola ruing City’s sudden inability to put the ball in the net.
    — Sam Lee, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The Toronto Blue Jays, absent for decades from the party, will long rue the agonizing finale.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Prices have skyrocketed with sale after record-breaking sale, causing many a baby boomer to rue the day their mother threw out their baseball-card collection with the trash.
    — Christina Binkley, Robb Report, 30 July 2023
  • The younger generation scoffs at the way their parents seem fatally, comically stuck in the past; the adults rue the fickle softness of their children.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 26 July 2021
  • Jamie Cassano, of Boca Raton, rues the loss of two lanes on Interstate 95 to toll lanes.
    — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2025
  • That’s yet another reason to rue the day the Supreme Court decided that corporations are people.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Viard duly went to rue Cambon to meet Lagerfeld’s aide de camp, the patrician Gilles Dufour, who hired her on the spot.
    — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 24 Nov. 2020
  • The Russian political strategists rued the difficulty of their task.
    — Shane Harris, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023

rue

2 of 2 noun
  • Weasels were said to roll in the evergreen plant rue to counter wounds and snakebites.
    — Adrienne Mayor, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2024
  • Murphy plays this cataclysm with an all-too-genuine rue and fear.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Citrus comes from a group of evergreen trees and shrubs in the rue family.
    — Stacey Lastoe, Southern Living, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The goat’s rue is thought to stimulate the production of mammary tissue.
    — Lainey Younkin, Ms, Rd, Parents, 15 May 2024
  • This realization is filled with rue, and yet there is a measure of wisdom in his uneasy acceptance of its verdict.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 May 2021
  • Sometimes the case for war’s inevitability is couched in expressions of rue and reluctance.
    — Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Native Son Hunter Brown Got Away From Tigers The Tigers rue that Brown got away.
    — John Perrotto, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • In the vase, the researchers found traces of two intriguing plants—first the Syrian rue, which causes stimulating and hallucinogenic effects in humans at low doses.
    — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 15 June 2023
  • During Maison&Objet, the aesthete unveiled five new collections of furniture and tableware at his expansive 11 rue d’Aboukir space.
    — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Wormwood Like rue, wormwood is another medicinal herb that’s typically grown as an ornamental these days and enjoyed for its delightfully pungent aroma.
    — Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 10 May 2026
  • After months of auditioning teenagers who might lend this rueful morality tale a note of optimism without losing the rue, the role of Mary Flynn proved hardest to fill — until the creative team heard Morrison.
    — Maryrose Wood, Variety, 12 Aug. 2022
  • As the struggling Fort Worth, Texas, single mother and former beauty queen who wishes a better life for her 15-year-old daughter, Beharie, even in her slightest gestures, projects the full weight of this woman’s lifelong persistence and rue.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Having designed for Lucien Lelong through most of World War II, Balmain set up his own couture house at 44 rue François 1er just after occupying German soldiers vacated the building.
    — Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 19 Sep. 2025

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