Example sentences for: bitterly

How can you use “bitterly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Since English lacks a calque for au revoir , it would be technically possible to make one, perhaps on the model of Joyce's (or his Stephen Dedalus') “agenbite (of inwit)” for remorse: till the agenseeing . But of course such bitterly pedantic wordplay would be unthinkable on the lips of the plain-spoken priest whose words give the Malle film its title and some of its poignancy.

  • So it was bitterly ironic when Elizabeth died without an heir and James, Mary’s Catholic son, inherited the English throne.

  • Even at 13, I understood that when the rest of the country heard Johnson's voice, it thought immediately and bitterly of Texas, where John F. Kennedy, the president with the graceful voice, was murdered.

  • (2) The Bushes bitterly resented the way the Reagans treated them as second-class citizens, rarely inviting them to the second-floor family quarters.

  • Black liberals attacked her bitterly when she described the Brown decision as an insult to black communities like hers, which had educated their own just fine.


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