The public had seen it go with a certain regret.

He felt a certain regret that this should facilitate the theft of an animal.

"I cannot eat you now," the Dragon Prince said with a certain regret.

I knew a certain regret as I waited for the shot.

There's a certain regret in all of this about raising children without roots.

Nothing but a certain regret that things had had to turn out this way.

Nor does a man reject what would once have seemed to him a great boon without a certain regret.

And yet it would be less than candid of me not to acknowledge that I felt certain regrets at the same time.

Stile decided, with a certain inner regret, to let that be.

It would be hard to leave without a certain regret.