Example sentences for: resentments

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

  • Hughes, they say, doesn't understand his wife's resentments.

  • Kathryn Harrison's status as voodoo doll has nothing to do with the actual merits or failings of her book, but is entirely owing to how economically her case concentrates the fears, resentments, misconceptions, and idiocies prevailing right now.

  • Everyone ignored the deep-seated ethnic resentments sowed by this system--ultimately grounded in the fact that Indonesia's top 50 families , a majority of whom happen to be ethnic Chinese--control more than 60 percent of the wealth.

  • They give the coming elite an egalitarian sensibility, so when they rise to the top, they won't give off offensive vapors that might arouse class resentments in the middle and lower class.

  • A few weeks ago, on his public-radio program A Prairie Home Companion , Garrison Keillor spent several minutes conversing with the occasional character Larry, his fictional twin brother, who lives beneath the stage and harbors resentments about a show-business career that slipped away.


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