Example sentences for: resentful

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

  • Immigration also threatens to divide America into two nations: one multicultural and young, the other white, older, and resentful.

  • But when her web of lies begins to unravel and he calls her "pretty bird," she rolls her eyes in a gesture at once accepting of his flattery, aware of her deceit, and resentful of his condescension.

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

  • "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."

  • And as you point out, it is the middle classes, and I would add, the upper working class, that seem most resentful, even though the children of the latter will go neither to the Ivy Leagues nor the flagship state universities.


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