GRUDGING in a Sentence

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54 example sentences for GRUDGING, such as:

1. You are envious, Biddy, and grudging.
2. He grudges every penny he has to spend.
3. I always feel she has a grudge against me.
4. England beat New Zealand in a grudge match.
5. I think he's harbouring some sort of grudge against me.

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 Meanings and Examples of GRUDGING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
grudging
 a.  unwilling or with reluctance; stingy
Classic Sentence: (43 in 3 pages)
1  After a pause he added "sir" in a dilatory, grudging way.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
2  You are envious, Biddy, and grudging.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIX
3  I suppose not,' returned my aunt, rather grudging the admission; 'but it's very aggravating.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 35. DEPRESSION
4  How I was, in a grudging way I have no words for, envious of her grief.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 38. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
5  I don't mind acknowledging to you that I've got rather a grudging disposition, and want to keep off all intruders.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. MISCHIEF
6  Being poor white, they were not even accorded the grudging respect that Angus MacIntosh's dour independence wrung from neighboring families.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
7  It was the same intangible, unspectacular courage that all the Wilkeses possessed, a quality which Scarlett did not understand but to which she gave grudging tribute.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
8  The lips of men in Gopher Prairie are flat in the face, straight and grudging.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
9  I'd given one man and thought it too much, while he gave four without grudging them.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FOUR
10  Yes, I can work as hard as he can, and with as little grudging.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
11  Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
12  He was hungry for, except some biscuits which he had asked two grudging curates to bring him, he had eaten nothing since breakfast-time.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In TWO GALLANTS
13  The wise and attentive precautions adopted for his safety touched Richard's feelings, and removed any slight grudge which he might retain on account of the deception the Outlaw Captain had practised upon him.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
14  He had a grudge and a grievance: that was obvious to any true-born English gentleman, who would scorn to let such a thing appear blatant in his own demeanour.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
15  Yet one could see a grudge against the Chatterleys peep out in her; the grudge against the masters.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
Example Sentence:
1  We received only grudging support from the mayor despite his earlier promises of aid.
2  England beat New Zealand in a grudge match.
3  He might have been murdered by a former client or someone harbouring a grudge.
4  I always feel she has a grudge against me.
5  I think he's harbouring some sort of grudge against me.
6  The students have to stop protesting and grudge the higher tuition money.
7  The essence of meek is to be patient with ignorance, slow to anger and never hold a grudge.
8  Bill grudged Dick his prize even though he had won a better prize himself.
9  Don't hold grudges against people who have hurt you; you should forgive and forget.
10  He grudges every penny he has to spend.
11  The visible manifestation of how real a century-old conflict was in places where time passed slowly, grudges died hard, and handed-down memories hung on and on.