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Example sentences for: rankles

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Speaking of local issues, the carpetbagger issue rankles me, too, but for different reasons.
It's the uneasy conjunction of race and sexuality that rankles, the suspicion that for Manet, the black maid added a kinky allure to the charms of the snide white prostitute.
We are, the stereotype has it, lousy fighters, and this rankles.
This rankles the newspaper industry, which wants to protect the income it receives for delivering advertising inserts.
But it's Johnson's Brookings connection that really rankles.