RESENTMENT in a Sentence

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204 example sentences for RESENTMENT, such as:

1. Don't let your resentment build up.
2. He struggled to contain his resentment.
3. She bitterly resented her father's new wife.
4. A greater cause for resentment is the discrepancy in pay.
5. She expressed resentment at being interviewed by a social worker.

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 Meanings and Examples of RESENTMENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
resentment
 n.  indignation; deep sense of injury; strong displeasure
Classic Sentence: (177 in 12 pages)
1  As a result, Suellen's sullen resentment had passed beyond the point of ladylike concealment and she glowered at Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  As Scarlett went obediently into the parlor, a silence fell on the porch, a silence that pulsed with resentment toward Rhett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  But Peter's words caused fierce resentment to burn in her breast, drove her to a defensive position, made her suddenly dislike her neighbors as much as she disliked the Yankees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
4  That fact was evident, in every line of him, in every bitter, self-condemnatory word, in his resentment at her bearing Frank's child.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
5  But far and above their anger at the waste and mismanagement and graft was the resentment of the people at the bad light in which the governor represented them in the North.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
6  She felt so free from ulterior motives that she took up his charge with a touch of resentment.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
7  The woman's resentment of the rebuff seemed to spur her lagging ideas.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
8  If she had destroyed Mrs. Dorset's letters, she might have continued to hate her; but the fact that they remained in her possession had fed her resentment to satiety.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
9  She was aware that she had Lily to thank for it; and dull resentment was turned to active animosity.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
10  But there remained in her thoughts a settled deposit of resentment against her niece, all the denser because it was not to be cleared by explanation or discussion.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
11  He paused, flushed by his diatribe, and fixing on her a look in which resentment was the ingredient she least disliked.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
12  His first rush of inarticulate resentment had been followed by a steadiness and concentration of tone more disconcerting to Lily than the excitement preceding it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
13  She received this with a look from which all tinge of resentment had faded.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
14  All her resentment of his fancied coldness was swept away in this overwhelming rush of recollection.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
15  They were like the Sunday-afternoon mob starting at monkeys in the Zoo, poking fingers and making faces and giggling at the resentment of the more dignified race.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
Example Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  She expressed resentment at being interviewed by a social worker.
2  Don't let your resentment build up.
3  A greater cause for resentment is the discrepancy in pay.
4  He struggled to contain his resentment.
5  Instead of discussing their problems, they bottle up all their anger and resentment.
6  Meanwhile, greed and vanity, using lies and fear, will once again manipulate ignorance and resentment.
7  That Gerry finally has let go of his resentment is an enormous relief to me.
8  Understandably, new tech millionaires might want to disguise their wealth at a time when resentment is rising toward tech workers gentrifying the Bay Area.
9  The disguised prince resented the cavalier way in which the palace guards treated him. How dared they handle a member of the royal family so unceremoniously!
10  Hamlet resented his mother's celerity in remarrying within a month after his father's death.
11  They resented his bantering remarks because they thought he was being sarcastic.
12  Born a slave, Frederick Douglass resented his life of servitude and plotted to escape to the North.
13  Still, I deeply resented the way I fruitlessly checked the dining room for him every morning.
14  She bitterly resented her father's new wife.
15  I deeply resented those sort of rumours being circulated at a time of deeply personal grief.