Example sentences for: resentments

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

  • 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.

  • Curley, like Barry, was a master at playing upon the social resentments of his disadvantaged constituents, doing them a great disservice while proclaiming himself their champion.

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

  • 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.

  • 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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