Example sentences for: bitterly

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

  • 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.

  • Bitterly, I toted three pairs of Slates to the dressing room, vowing never again to subscribe to an online magazine, even one that doesn't charge.

  • McCourt is the pixie-faced, white-haired, thick-brogued raconteur who wrote Angela's Ashes , a Bildungsroman explaining how the bitterly poor son of an embittered drunk from Limerick, Ireland, became the kind of man who could write a witty, heartbreaking memoir about being the bitterly poor son of an embittered drunk, etc.

  • Colombia's leading daily, El Espectador , bitterly lamented the country's unreadiness for Monday's earthquake disaster.

  • A great title can be nobly direct (Nabokov's Speak, Memory ; Jack Paar's I Kid You Not ), bitterly cryptic (Josef von Sternberg's Fun in a Chinese Laundry ; Adolf Loos' Nevertheless ), or too clever by half ( Roman by Polanski).


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