Example Sentences

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David Finney, a retired police officer, remembers a sudden resentfulness.

From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2021

In Tuan, the Jenningses’ alt-child, the show sets up a contrast: his dogmatic conviction, presumably born of severe hardship, versus Paige’s uncertainty and resentfulness, born of her privileged American childhood.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2017

Given the number of times he was kidnapped, it might be natural for Stendal to nurse bitter and resentfulness toward the Farc.

From The Guardian • Jan. 26, 2016

And yet, for no one else is resentfulness so central.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2015

This intrigue took place many years ago, but Charley was so deeply mortified that he hates Tom to this day, and Tom is an uncomfortable fellow for anyone disposed to resentfulness.

From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)