Example sentences for: resented

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

  • (The last film for which I have unqualified admiration is Robert Duvall's The Apostle .) I was enraged by the killing of the Iraqi mother in Three Kings and resented some of the jokiness and formula machinations that followed in its wake.

  • They resented the sending of Canadian troops to South Africa to support the British in the Boer War, and were no more enthusiastic about the Anglo-French alliance in World War I. Bourassa said “The real enemies of French-Canadians are not the Germans but English-Canadian anglicizers, the Ontario intriguers or Irish priests.”

  • The Indians, however, resented his refusal to consult them, and rioted over an ill-considered partition of Bengal.

  • I was crushed and resented him for many years.

  • The Fujiwara resented the Buddhist clergy’s great and growing influence in imperial affairs.


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