Example sentences for: resent

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

  • “As a mother of an 18-month-old daughter with an M.A. in education who has decided to stay home to raise my child (a difficult and soul-wrenching decision), I resent the characterizsation of the full-time mother as one who is occupied with `laundry, shopping, preparing dinner,' to the exclusion of one-to-one contact with my child.”

  • Blacks resent Hispanics' perceived hoarding of scarce public-school funds.

  • If one had the 1984 edition, he might well resent having to buy this book rather than a briefer (and less expensive) Supplement.

  • Among the findings: The voters approve of George W.'s equivocations on the cocaine question--largely because they resent the perceived arrogance of the media; they cannot agree what the correct GOP stance on abortion and gun control should be; and they now hate Newt Gingrich and love Bush the Elder, whom they regret abandoning in '92.

  • Some Indians already resent suggestions they are descended from ancient Asians--such contentions fly in the face of their creation myths.


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