The board president bowed apologetically out of the room after announcing that the company was broke.    From LearnThat.org. 

He spoke apologetically about his past.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : An apologetic letter to his creditors explained the delay.    From Dictionary.com. 

I found him "-- apologetically --" using some very bad language the other day.    From Wordnik.com.  [A True Friend A Novel] Reference

As to almost "apologetically" even the playing field.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Open Letter to Democrats on Jobs - Ben Shapiro - Townhall Conservative] Reference

"I know," apologetically, "I'm rubbing it in pretty hard, Darley, but I can't help it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dominant Dollar] Reference

"It was so late, you see," he said apologetically.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp] Reference

'I rub along all right!' said Toffy apologetically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference

"I couldn't help it!" she cried, half apologetically.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Governess] Reference

"I was speaking of myself," he adds half apologetically.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference

"I don't, but pap does," the boy answered apologetically.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference

"That's the only money I've got," she said apologetically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference

"I swear I did, too, Colonel," said Travis apologetically.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference

"Hey, it gets people's attention," it says apologetically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laughing in America: a Millennial's answer to Mourning in America] Reference

"It's fun when you know how," she ventured, apologetically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of Gold] Reference

"Just not specifically there," he would add, apologetically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stop being so mean to the 'Ground Zero mosque'] Reference

Grammar, they say apologetically, was not their best subject.    From Wordnik.com.  [Like I Said, Don't Worry] Reference

"I'm -- I'm confoundedly sleepy," he murmured apologetically.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit of Far End] Reference

"I never was very good at geography," she began apologetically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom of the Raiders] Reference

"But they are such tempting fingers," he whispers apologetically.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference

"I know," Arethusa said, a trifle apologetically, as if she knew it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference

"I should have been polite in any case," he declared, apologetically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ideala] Reference

"'Tain't much," he said apologetically, "but maybe it'll do for your doll.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicken Little Jane] Reference

"Ma ain't got time to keep us washed up," explained Tobias, apologetically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of Gold] Reference

"This is a lazy way to receive visitors, isn't it?" he said apologetically.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit of Far End] Reference

Ned glanced apologetically at Tom, and said, with a shrug of his shoulders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift in the City of Gold, or, Marvelous Adventures Underground] Reference

"Then for once you have failed of your object," he whispered apologetically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference

"I'm afraid you think I'm a terrible gossip," said Miss Tibbutt apologetically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference

"An unwomanly woman is such a dreadful creature," Claudia added, apologetically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ideala] Reference

"Ah," said Jud apologetically, "an 'I hope we won't smell any brimstone to-night.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference

"I'm afraid it's rather wet," he said, apologetically, drawing it from his pocket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dick, Marjorie and Fidge A Search for the Wonderful Dodo] Reference

"If it hedn't been a new jestice she cudn't hev got it out," he said apologetically.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives] Reference

“I'm in a hurry,” the woman said apologetically as she scuttled on, dragging her burden.    From Wordnik.com.  [For the Woman Who Has a Hundred] Reference

"I cannot imagine," said Mrs. Westmore apologetically, "what is the matter with Clay to-day.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference

"We were just speakin 'to one another about them Hydrophoby Skunks," said Bill apologetically.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference

"Of course I had none," she says apologetically, but still the tabloids followed her for dirt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Konnie Huq's growing pains] Reference

Howley nodded apologetically and pulled off everything but two thousand dollars worth of chips.    From Wordnik.com.  [...Or Your Money Back] Reference

I apologetically close the door, but long after the lights are out, the ghosts keep on knocking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poverty Unmasked at Halloween] Reference

The other lady, added Mr. Platt to his speech apologetically, had slightly misrepresented things.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference

"We have to compete with the satellites," says the manager of one theater, almost apologetically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iraqi Vice] Reference