Example sentences for: resentful

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

  • Elena, a course of radiation treatments for breast cancer behind her, has distanced herself from her dying mother, her rich ex-husband, her resentful daughter.

  • Critics are seduced by the Dickensian depths of this Dutch thriller, set in 1920s Rotterdam, about a spiteful father and his resentful bastard son.

  • More negative responses: The critics are resentful about the fact that the film will rake in money despite their reviews.

  • Participants recognized that programs were turning or had turned that critical corner--from being resistant to or resentful of change to an embracing of new visions by staff, board members and other stakeholders.

  • "Squirrel Nutkin was a bitter, resentful recluse who secretly despised Twinkleberry and goaded Old Mr. Brown into violence, according to a collection of correspondence published by former lover Joyce Maynard."


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