Example sentences for: resentment

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

  • Wealthy enough to have had the means to flee Israel in 1967, they began building villas and buying fancy cars upon their return, provoking resentment among the thousands of Palestinians who have lived for decades in U.N.-run refugee camps.

  • Examples in the story of concerns where the new technology and the worker resentment it breeds are in evidence: AT&T, Pacific Bell, the FCC, Delta Airlines, Exxon, the State Department, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and Lockheed Martin.

  • The Army implemented its affirmative-action policy in the mid-'70s, responding to rising resentment of white superiors among the black rank and file, which had resulted in race riots on bases.

  • The NYT delays until paragraph seventeen mention of rising unemployment and economic-based resentment of Chinese Indonesians.

  • In both cases there is the society in a state of collapse, the government tottering dizzily from crisis to crisis, and the people increasingly gripped by resentment and rage against a West they blame for abandoning, betraying, and exploiting them.


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