Example sentences for: resents

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

  • A preening Italian-American sports agent (Al Palagonia) declares that he has no mob ties and that he resents being stereotyped, shortly before delivering a stereotypical (and very funny, Scorsese-esque) recitation of the luxuries (Ferraris, Rolexes, mansions) that await Jesus if he signs on the dotted line.

  • Will resents Marcus and finds him weird, but when he drops him off at home, they find the mother passed out in a failed suicide attempt, and Will's sympathy is engaged.

  • Roth resents having to go to the opera, having to make arrangements for Bloom's mother's funeral, and (less unreasonably) having to deal with Bloom's nervousness in the face of illness.

  • American opposition to Mobutu has been a source of tension with France, which supports the Hutus and resents Kabila's alliance with the Banyamulenge.

  • As someone who resents houseplants enormously for needing so much and giving so little, I thought at first that this might be hypocritical.


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