How to Use resentment in a Sentence

resentment

noun

• He's filled with resentment at his boss.
• He expressed his resentment of the new policies.
• She bore bitter feelings of resentment toward her ex-husband.
• To the place beyond the resentment and the stereotypes.
  — The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• Rather than hold resentment, though, the two hopped in on the joke.
  — Zizi Strater, Peoplemag, 3 May 2023
• Please try to step up to the plate with less resentment.
  — Abby, Houston Chronicle, 12 Jan. 2018
• The resentment of the judges was strong enough that they were booed when announced for the main event.
  — Todd Martin, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2019
• We're used to seething resentments and bizarre claims, boasts and lies.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 1 Oct. 2024
• The local cops were called, gloves were worn, and much anger and resentment brewed.
  — Robyn A. Friedman, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2022
• The movie has scant interest in the origins of the class resentment.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 10 May 2018
• She wasn’t burned up with resentment and anger and hate.
  — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023
• It’s about the singer’s sadness, not any type of anger or resentment.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 25 Jan. 2021
• The senselessness of the death, and her guilt over her own resentment, messed her up.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2021
• There is ever a residue of resentment against the successful of the world.
  — Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2022
• The end result was resentment, burnout, and more turnover within the firm.
  — Curt Steinhorst, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• For Clark, amid the cheering is the discord of resentment.
  — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 12 June 2024
• His glooms and resentments were an old story for all of them.
  — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• That defused a growing tide of resentment against the monarch.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2022
• Please keep that in mind to keep your resentment from growing.
  — Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2021
• But over time this might breed resentment on both sides.
  — Lizzie Cernik, refinery29.com, 31 Mar. 2022
• This is at the root of populism, or much of it: self-pity, grievance, resentment.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 Sep. 2024
• Vanya’s middle-aged angst and resentments are, of course, the source of the play’s combustion.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2024
• This is a lot of resentment for a crime that has not yet been committed.
  — Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin, oregonlive, 26 Aug. 2023
• The prices spike, the quality declines, and resentment builds on all sides.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2024
• Instead of giving in to resentment, turn things around and rewrite the plan.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 13 June 2021
• These gripes may be contributing to the resentment around the return to in-person work.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2023
• The movie is filled with labor—and with stifled resentment.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 July 2019
• Amghar is cheerful and quick to joke, but some of his sarcasm hints at deep resentment.
  — Aurelien Breeden, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2020
• The narrator’s father was prone to unpredictable rage and resentment.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2024
• There’s little shown of the resentment or rekindled sparks such a situation could facilitate; the ex-couple are simply too busy trying to steer their sinking ship.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 6 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024