Sentence for resentment | Use resentment in a sentence

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• Resentment welled up in Leila. (8)
• But there his resentment stopped. (8)
• March asked with an obscure resentment. (9)
• Nor did that day wear out her resentment. (4)
• Lorm knew this, but he bore her no resentment. (12)
• Keep up his resentment, therefore, I charge you. (4)
• Miss Macroyd laughed and laughed at his resentment. (9)
• But if he resented it, he never showed his resentment. (9)
• Mrs. Leighton sighed her resentment of the implication. (9)
• The words were a masterpiece of resentment and distrust. (8)
• Her heart is made for love and kindness, not for resentment. (4)
• He could not help a sort of blind resentment in the situation. (9)
• In the morning this feeling of resentment was more firmly fixed. (13)
• It is one of the important uses of civility to signify resentment. (1)
• She took this new revelation of his unbridled ways without resentment. (8)
• Some resentment did arise at a perseverance so selfish and ungenerous. (4)
• He was full, too, of resentment, at the waste and loneliness of her life. (8)
• Yet it had something in it that tamed his resentment and made him shiver. (1)
• But now that he had come she was filled with this cold and deadly resentment. (8)
• Sullen resentment against this attempt to force him settled deep into his soul. (8)
• Because he shared in their resentment he was enraged with them and with himself. (8)
• Now he wrote coldly, and she had to repress a feeling of resentment at that also. (10)
• They glanced at each other with a flash of resentment, and then they both laughed. (9)
• It is odd, and rather frets my conscience, to think of the little resentment I feel. (10)
• It was thus that she recorded her permanent resentment at the loss of Septimus Small. (8)
• Her heart was divided between concern for her sister, and resentment against all others. (4)
• He got up, examined the pistols on the wall, and felt resentment at the faded, dusty room. (8)
• Again there was that satisfied resentment in his voice and the little smile twisting his lips. (8)
• His black eyes smouldered; there was more than class resentment in the expression of his face. (8)
• Mrs. Lapham faltered between her lingering resentment and the appeals of her flattered vanity. (9)
• Resentment at the perfect realization of her anticipated worldly indifference lent him force. (10)
• That is the revenge which dull minds take upon bright ones in resentment of their superiority. (1)
• Her heart was doing the grand ecart within her, this way in compunction, that way in resentment. (8)
• An indefinite resentment at Riversley was the feeling I grew conscious of after very fast walking. (10)
• He plodded along amongst the damp woods with his head down, and resentment and dismay in his heart. (8)
• In his frenzies of resentment or suspicion he would not, and doubtless could not, listen to reason. (9)
• The greater the truth the greater the libel, and the greater the resentment of the person libelled. (8)
• The resentment which springs up in fathers when other fathers dispose of young lives, rose in Robert. (8)
• Grace flushed guiltily, and Miss Gleason cowered a little, perhaps interpreting the color as resentment. (9)
• Each had a different way, humorous or philosophic, contemptuous, sour, or sly, of showing this resentment. (8)
• The elder man gave him one of his staccato glances in which Burnamy fancied suspicion and even resentment. (9)
• He had suddenly no pride, no pleasure, no desire; nothing but a sort of dull resentment against everything. (8)
• There was probably no resentment expressed in the way she withdrew her hand, but the other thought there was. (9)
• But in it all he felt no resentment toward Alice, no wish to wreak any smallest part of his suffering upon her. (9)
• She could not but feel some resentment against Mr. Crawford; yet, if he really loved her, and were unhappy too! (4)
• She tried to lessen that nightmare by remembering his opposition to her marriage, and the resentment she had felt. (8)
• If it be so, if I have been misled by such error to inflict pain on her, your resentment has not been unreasonable. (4)
• Despite resentment, her deepest heart denied his being indifferent either to her honour or his own in relation to it. (10)
• Elizabeth had hoped that his resentment might shorten his visit, but his plan did not appear in the least affected by it. (4)
• Blasts of frigid wind swept the streets, and buffeted each other in a fury of resentment when they met around the corners. (9)
• A fierce resentment burned in her heart; she longed to make him feel something of the anguish she had needlessly undergone. (9)
• The turmoil of despair, of triumph, of remorse and resentment, which filled her soul, tried to express itself in the words. (9)
• He caught her hand, and flung it violently away; she shrieked with delight in his childish resentment, and left him sulking. (9)
• They must not do less than others, or she should be exposed to odious suspicions, and imagined capable of pitiful resentment. (4)
• Resentment could not have been more plainly spoken than in a civility to her father, from which she was so pointedly excluded. (4)
• And that did not appease the resentment tearing him from her, so justifiable then, as he forced himself to think, now hideous. (10)
• The widow met him with a welcome neatly marked by resentment; she meant him to feel that his not coming sooner had been noticed. (9)
• But perhaps he would not have understood, if I had spoken out all that was in me with the fulness I could have given a resentment. (9)
• She wondered at herself too for thinking of resentment and disdain in relation to the familiar commonplaces of licenced impertinence. (10)
• But he has no redress; he is simply set free to bear through all his after life the stain of dishonor and nourish an ineffectual resentment. (7)
• Her anger at the thought of his keeping Nevil away from good fortune and happiness caused her to speak in resentment and loathing of the man. (10)
• She started, as if his whisper had intruded on her thoughts; but his face must have expressed his hunger, for the resentment in her eyes vanished. (8)
• Mr. Darcy, who was leaning against the mantelpiece with his eyes fixed on her face, seemed to catch her words with no less resentment than surprise. (4)
• He thought of him the night before in the company of those ladies and gentlemen, and he quivered in resentment of his vulgar, braggart, uncouth nature. (9)
• He endeavoured, long endeavoured, to soften my resentment; but that woman is a fool indeed who, while insulted by accusation, can be worked on by compliments. (4)

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