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12 example sentences for RANKLE, such as:

1. 'It rankled in your baby breast,' he said.
2. The latter allusion struck deep, and the injury rankled.
3. The memory of having been jilted would rankle him for years.
4. Summers' ascent to the top of the list to succeed Bernanke rankled some of the president's liberal supporters.
5. Her words and her actions rankled in too many hearts for many people to care whether this scandal hurt her or not.

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 Meanings and Examples of RANKLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rankle
 v.  grow worse; cause persistent irritation or resentment
Classic Sentence:
1  Blasted as thou wert, my agony was still superior to thine, for the bitter sting of remorse will not cease to rankle in my wounds until death shall close them forever.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
2  Pearl felt the sentiment, and requited it with the bitterest hatred that can be supposed to rankle in a childish bosom.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VI. PEARL
3  The dimensions of the Brys' ball-room must rankle: you may be sure she knows 'em as well as if she'd been there last night with a yard-measure.'
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
4  His tall brothers were a grim, quiet lot, in whom the family tradition of past glories, lost forever, rankled in unspoken hate and crackled out in bitter humor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  Her words and her actions rankled in too many hearts for many people to care whether this scandal hurt her or not.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
6  The latter allusion struck deep, and the injury rankled.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
7  It would have rankled in me more than it did, if I had not regarded myself as eliciting it by being so set apart for her and assigned to her.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIX
8  'It rankled in your baby breast,' he said.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33. BLISSFUL
9  Well, this injury, as he would consider it, has rankled in his wicked, scheming brain, and all his life he has longed for vengeance, but never seen his chance.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
10  Some slighting phrases she had used still rankled in his memory; she had once spoken of Gretta as being country cute and that was not true of Gretta at all.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
Example Sentence:
1  The memory of having been jilted would rankle him for years.
2  Summers' ascent to the top of the list to succeed Bernanke rankled some of the president's liberal supporters.