Example Sentences

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About talks with Tata: Welsh government have bridled at suggestions that they refused to take part.

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2024

Lynch may have bridled against TV conventions that demanded neat resolutions, but that is the context in which Twin Peaks existed.

From Slate • May 3, 2017

He hated flying, had no time for dossiers or researching the opposition and would have bridled at all the necessary schmoozing with the media.

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2014

During the past seven years, Greeks have bridled under a puritanical yoke at times rivaling that of Calvin's Geneva.

From Time Magazine Archive

Do you think I have bridled my hate for months in vain?

From A Struggle for Rome, v. 1 by Dahn, Felix