Example sentences for: rancor

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

  • This book can do nothing, of course, to relieve us of the sort of vocabulary that makes a garbage man or dustman into a waste removal consultant, but it is enormously helpful in explaining, in a straightforward way and (unfortunately) without rancor, what bureaucracy has bequeathed us.

  • On the one hand, a trial without witnesses seems odd and on the other, there is concern that with a full slate of witnesses, the Senate cannot avoid the rancor just seen in the House.

  • The personal rancor fomented by impeachment blocks bipartisan cooperation.

  • (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.

  • 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.


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