Example Sentences

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A sample: During the chorus, Swift proves once more that she’d make a fantastic BuzzFeed writer, telling us about yet another list she keeps of those who spited her.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 25, 2017

Last week Bush spited journalists who prematurely published the identity of his choice for Transportation Secretary by postponing the nomination of Chicago attorney Samuel Skinner.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is not, however, to be supposed that the Beechhurst people spited themselves so far as to keep away from the rector's school-treat because they did not love the rector.

From The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax by Lee, Holme, [pseud.]

I wisht I could make the neighbors all see the jestice in his taking over the land and not feel so spited at him.

From Rose of Old Harpeth by Daviess, Maria Thompson

"Wouldn't it have spited us if Master Joe had been spoiled with a broken arm, and all the fun we've been planning gone for nothing?"

From Harper's Young People, October 5, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various