Example sentences for: bitterly

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

  • If true, this is an ironic name for a city that would become one of the most constantly and bitterly embattled places on the face of the earth.

  • 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.

  • The Old Left was very important in the civil-rights movement, which now even the far right concedes was a Good Thing, but which at the time it bitterly opposed.

  • 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.

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


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