Example Sentences

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Within Facebook, Mr. Zuckerberg’s more engaged style was rankling employees.

From New York Times • May 16, 2020

It was still there; but all around it was rankling as with poison.

From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne

I tried to console Manon as we went along, but despair was rankling in my own heart.

From Manon Lescaut by Prévost, Abbé

Brandt was then yet a mere youth, and was rankling with the memory of a severe and unjust reprimand that the older poet some time before had given him.

From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den

He grunted assent, full of the grievance that was rankling in his mind.

From A Man Four-Square by Raine, William MacLeod