How to Use embitter in a Sentence

embitter

verb

• The soldier was embittered by the war.
• This is a weathered, embittered Sarah who has earned every one of those scars and wrinkles and has only grown tougher over the years.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 Nov. 2019
• Sykes lost his radio show and is now among the embittered, marginalized refugees at the anti-Trump Bulwark.
  — Peter Spiliakos, National Review, 28 Aug. 2019
• All of this, plus the theft that occurred in those two days, embittered business owners, most of whom never returned to the West Side.
  — Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2018
• Sheeran assumes the pose of someone at the top, lonely and embittered, a style that is put across much more convincingly by the hip-hop acts on the album.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 22 July 2019
• And when Frankenstein died, his creature continued to roam the earth, enraged and embittered, poised to wreak more damage.
  — Charlotte Gordon, Slate Magazine, 23 Jan. 2017
• Smith was embittered by the ignominious loss of his home state in 1928 and the underwhelming margin in his own city.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2018
• Marc Perresquia: The book is about a woman who has been wronged, who's very embittered, who's been abused … emotionally, has been cheated on.
  — CBS News, 27 July 2019
• Let’s hope feelings of anger and resentment don’t embitter his afternoon cups of tea with Sandy.
  — Spencer Morgan, New York Times, 8 June 2019
• By the time 1949 rolled around, and Davis’s contract expired, both she and Warner were embittered by the experience (as Warner’s remarks in Feud prove).
  — Julie Miller, HWD, 12 Mar. 2017
• After a storybook senior season, Butcher has no cause to be embittered about the way this worked out and the Avs don’t deserve to be ripped for not trying to coax him out of the DU program a year ago.
  — Terry Frei, The Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2017
• Indeed, for some unionists, Madrid’s all-out attempt to stop the referendum has embittered them.
  — Jeannette Neumann, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2017
• Ruth’s grief is further embittered by empty pieties surrounding motherhood and the ills of modern life at large.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2017
• The women — all of whom had been fervent Patrick supporters — came away from their tenure embittered by the experience and stunned the governor did not stand up for equal pay.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Dec. 2019
• Both the occupation and the brutality during the war have embittered ties between Algiers and Paris.
  — Elaine Ganley, Fox News, 13 Sep. 2018
• Patrick was stung when the news about his brother-in-law was first exposed by the Boston Herald during his campaign in 2006, and embittered by the personal revelations.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Nov. 2019
• The Holocaust was a traumatizing experience for many Jews and many people were embittered, lost their faith and didn't want to be Jewish anymore.
  — Patricia Dillon, Houston Chronicle, 23 Feb. 2018
• Danish kitchenware supremo Bodum has granted itself a do-over on the worst machine in your kitchen: the coffee-embittering drip machine.
  — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 23 Jan. 2012
• An angry and embittered Trump without any sort of protective cocoon around him is capable of almost anything -- up to and including getting rid of the man who has been a burr in his saddle for the past year.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 9 Apr. 2018
• Sports fans are often embittered by years of disappointment after starting to support a team just as its potential peaks.
  — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2017
• The specter of Dickens’s ranting spinster — spurned and embittered in her crumbling wedding dress, plotting her elaborate revenge — casts a long shadow over every woman who dares to get mad.
  — Leslie Jamison, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2018
• His father, embittered by the season 2 trial, turned the Padillas in for retribution for his bruised reputation.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 24 Aug. 2019
• Warning: The make-believe engine room involves shoveling real coal, which ruins my friend’s new white sneakers and leaves him embittered about the whole experience.
  — Samantha Melamed, Philly.com, 3 Apr. 2018
• Being close to death, rather than embittering them against their enemies or inflating them with a sense of superiority, lent the Moltkes a greater moral clarity.
  — Mary Spencer, National Review, 29 Feb. 2020
• Both outcomes cost the company a potentially excellent worker—and can leave the worker embittered.
  — Peter Cappelli, WSJ, 17 Feb. 2017
• Yet many Muslims, embittered by conflict and poverty, remain hostile to the Philippine authorities.
  — The Economist, 17 Oct. 2017
• Detectives’ phones rarely ring with tips, and officers grow embittered with witnesses who will not cooperate.
  — Benjamin Mueller and Al Baker, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2016
• The senior administration official suggested that the criticism was the byproduct of left-leaning groups embittered by Mr. Fleitz’s long-running critique of their work.
  — Dion Nissenbaum, WSJ, 1 June 2018
• People were already angry with Beijing for failing to deliver on its promise of a democratic vote; the prosecutions further embittered many.
  — Suzanne Sataline, Quartz, 30 Nov. 2019
• Activists have been embittered by the White House’s rollback of federal guidance advising school districts to let transgender students to use the bathrooms and locker rooms that corresponds to their gender identities.
  — Fox News, 12 June 2017

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