Example sentences for: rancor

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

  • The personal rancor fomented by impeachment blocks bipartisan cooperation.

  • I was remembering the rancor that followed two previous revisionist works on Vietnam--by Norman Podhoretz and Richard Nixon, to say nothing of Robert McNamara's 25-years-after-the-fact revelation that he'd made a little mistake back in the '60s.

  • In Paris, Le Monde said Clinton "staked his all" in his address, challenging the Republicans to work with a president they want to topple, or else enter the November 2000 elections under the banner of an "impeachment party" that abandoned a popular program to satisfy its rancor.

  • 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.

  • 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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