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Example sentences for "grudged"

Lexicographically close words:
grubby; grubs; grubstake; grubstaked; grudge; grudges; grudging; grudgingly; grue; gruel
  1. He worked himself to death on it, and grudged food both for himself and the others.

  2. And many of those who had enough grudged themselves even food; the cold ate their needs away, and set anxiety in their place.

  3. Now the mothers sat with their children all day long, and no one but the cold grudged them this delight.

  4. It was no sooner light than he was at work; he kept at it with feverish eagerness until darkness fell; and grudged every hour until dawn should reappear again.

  5. They are worse than M----, who grudged me his wine.

  6. But Maggie never grudged him to these inquirers; she was pleased to find he was so much sought after, and took a greater pride in it than even her uncle.

  7. If I were a younger man,” he said, “I think I should have grudged you that lock of hair.

  8. What a pass had he come to when he grudged a little kudos to a rival, grudged it churlishly, childishly.

  9. He need not have grudged her only five years.

  10. He may keep for himself that present which he had so grudged the trouble of choosing for her.

  11. The king released him: Rome grudged not the price; No Persian bribe could tempt him from his home.

  12. Napoleon had reckoned upon this, as he always did upon everything, and for that good reason he had not grudged the time devoted to his home affairs.

  13. Was there ever a time or place in which a dog grudged his sprightly and disinterested service, or failed to do his best when called upon?

  14. She had lost her pet hero, the simplest and dearest of all the thousands she has borne and nursed, and for every penny she had grudged him in the flesh, she would lay a thousand pounds upon his bones.

  15. Retire into the palace; our own physician shall attend you; the best of lodging and the best of care shall not be grudged to my kinsman.

  16. He never expected for a moment that his wild hopeless love could win him anything but sorrow, yet he grudged it not, nor strove to conquer the idolatry for which he was prepared to pay its cruel penalty,--he is paying it even now.

  17. Cleopatra, like a royal voluptuary, grudged no price for her desire; and in her love of conquest, blazoned forth and made the most of her rich southern charms.

  18. Then from crying she fell to laughing, as softly and as gently, as if her heart grudged her voice the joy of it.

  19. Greeba also shook her head, but from another cause, for though she grudged her brothers nothing she knew that her father was fast being impoverished.

  20. If Elodie grudged him the joy of books and he yielded to her resentment, he was a lost mountebank.

  21. She never lost her head, demanded a more prominent position, or grudged him the lion's share of the applause.

  22. His mother grudged herself comforts for his sake, yet she had a fire.

  23. Fifty pounds were apologetically retained by Lady Loveland, who grudged every penny to herself and especially to her servants.

  24. Poor Bell Robson had to sit down almost as soon as she entered the room, so worn out was she with fatigue and excitement; yet she grudged every moment which separated her, as she thought, from her husband.

  25. Every body was even covetous of her company; and we grudged her to our brothers Harlowe, and to our sister and brother Hervey.

  26. He was a screw: he had lived on a crust, and he now grudged every halfpenny.

  27. But in Giannotto's dislike there was nothing noble; it was merely mean hate of a sordid soul that grudged the success of the bold crimes itself could never dare to undertake.

  28. The gods grudged life to mortals, as they grudged them joy and all good things.

  29. How they grudged to see them falling around the boat into the sea, and being lost to them for ever.

  30. Although they were thus reduced to a small allowance of food--a smaller quantity than was sufficient to sustain life for any lengthened period-- no one in the slightest degree grudged Jacko his small portion.

  31. Greatest of the kings By Memphis worshipped, Alexander grudged (16) To Nile its mystery, and to furthest earth Sent chosen Ethiops whom the crimson zone Stayed in their further march, while flowed his stream Warm at their feet.

  32. Reading her name among the deaths made me glad of a kindness I grudged her once.

  33. He hated repose for himself and grudged it to others.

  34. Laddie, I've kent since syne what it is to be without bite or sup, but I've never grudged that siller.

  35. He had spun out her previous five-pound note so that it had kept him going for weeks and weeks, and he had grudged himself even a newspaper.

  36. She did not attach any significance to the alleged club engagements; she had never grudged him the occasional evenings he spent in that way, since it kept him in touch with the art-world.

  37. Inadequate as had been their clerical income, supplemented by pitifully small private means, she and her husband had grudged nothing to Bayworth.

  38. True, he had at once received a number of invitations from hostesses of the kind who make it their business to secure the latest celebrity, and he had grudged the time he spent over the writing of coldly civil refusals.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grudged" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.