Example sentences for: bitterly

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

  • There can, admittedly, be a bitterly Schadenfreude quality to some of it, for theirs is a hard life.

  • An excerpt from Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom's America in Black and White cites polls to reject the conventional wisdom that Americans remain bitterly divided over race: "In fact, we are one nation, with blacks and whites much less unequal and, by many measures, much less hostile than in the past."

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • It might be, however, that his contempt is too much on the surface, so that his bitterly conclusive outburst to his daughter on a mountaintop in Switzerland feels less than earthshaking.


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