Example sentences for: bitterly

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

  • Both laws were bitterly resisted by the bench and bar, and because of such pressure the later one was eviscerated before it went into effect by an amendment allowing the continued use of customary words.

  • 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.

  • The national-greatness line has been bitterly attacked by two other kinds of conservatives who were always hostile to the neocons--libertarians and populists.

  • 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.

  • 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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