Example sentences for: rancor

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

  • But after millennia of arrogance laced with sensuality for some and awe laced with rancor for most, fur has been tamed and put in its place.

  • Accepting his idea of a “new nation dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal” would have enabled Americans to negotiate the postbellum period without self-seeking and rancor.

  • This Republican rejoinder grants that the House impeachment process was politicized but argues that 1) the Senate should be above such tawdry politics; and 2) the way to regain public confidence is to transcend partisan rancor and skepticism by reverting to the innocence of a jury.

  • (This residual anger can be seen even in Bill Cosby's early acting--he's the only good thing in the otherwise atrocious Mother, Jugs & Speed and there's a compelling undercurrent of rancor in his work in Hickey & Boggs --before he retired from the human race.

  • For its part, the Senate is positively gloating about its own unanimity, so different from the squabbling rancor in the House.


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