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Example sentences for "resentfully"

Lexicographically close words:
resembleth; resembling; resent; resented; resentful; resenting; resentment; resentments; resents; reserue
  1. Then, having resentfully put his mind to it, he evolved some logic.

  2. The object sought defied his fevered efforts to unearth it and with teeth set, he ransacked the studio, resentfully flinging a melee of hindrances right and left.

  3. Osborn got resentfully into his bed, and thought of Rokeby, with whom he had just parted, and the end of a conversation they had had.

  4. He flung it up and heard the drab creature behind him shudder resentfully at the inrush of raw air.

  5. All the young Monroes regarded their father's temperamental shortcomings with stoicism, so that it was in no sense resentfully that she faced the inevitable preliminaries that night.

  6. It is not surprising that, to the hour of the poet's death, Godwin thought of him bitterly and resentfully as an evil man.

  7. She went on loosening the laces in a contemptuous silence, during which the boy glowered resentfully at the back of her shining black hair.

  8. Octave did not see it at all, and resentfully pursued her way; something very like hatred for Maude taking possession of her breast.

  9. You are ready to doubt my word," resentfully spoke Mr. Chattaway, feeling considerably aggrieved.

  10. I have had a dozen past here, opening their mouths," resentfully spoke the woman.

  11. She moved slowly about the room, resentfully distressed, touching with reluctant fingers objects indelibly associated in her memory with the man of her first love.

  12. She noted resentfully the fact that her sister had neglected to make up the bed: its rumpled sheets and pillows, still retaining the impression of over-night, lent the cubicle the final effect of sordid poverty.

  13. Mary Raymond's blue eyes were turned on them resentfully as they entered the room.

  14. Despite the magnificent opportunity to flay the capitalists which their most recent tactics afforded him, he paused, repeated himself, and began again, glancing from time to time reproachfully, almost resentfully at Janet.

  15. He looks at her resentfully as she speaks, but she has so entirely forgotten her own application of the accented adjectives to his feelings for Amelia, that she replies only by a rather puzzled but perfectly innocent glance.

  16. After brooding resentfully on this idea for a considerable time, he translates it into speech.

  17. At that moment her mother came in, looking anxiously at them both, and half resentfully at Marcella.

  18. As she too rose, she said resentfully to Aldous: "Well, you have snubbed me!

  19. The magnolias stood blazing white on the lawns, the stiff scarlet poinsettias twitched resentfully under the poising fireflies' weight, and from the dark geraniums scent rose like a smoke.

  20. And, as if to add more to this reproach, he climbed the fence that compassed the woods, looking resentfully back at his companion.

  21. His little bench at the sunny side of Migglesville tavern became a sort of an open court where people came to speak resentfully of their grievances.

  22. She thought resentfully of the many flowers which Aunt Clara said grew in such generous loveliness in her own native Massachusetts hills; there was nothing but hardship and desolation in Utah, with common daisies and cheap grasses for flowers.

  23. But, instead of turning contemptuously or resentfully away, her face was pitiful.

  24. Only one point did honest Moira think of resentfully afterwards; and that was Alice's dismissal of the Baffalls from the very scheme of things, as being necessary only for what they gave her.

  25. Resentfully she rubbed an edge of the purple dress between her fingers.

  26. They were alone in the parlour, Ellen having been dispatched resentfully on an errand to Great Ansdore.

  27. Joanna's dependents whether in yard or kitchen were resentfully engrossed in the new conditions.

  28. I understood why Marcus had so resentfully repudiated the suggestion of turning his back on this country.

  29. I looked resentfully up and as I did so recognized the figure above me as that of Curt Dawson.

  30. The Little Doctor turned her glance resentfully to her brother's partner.

  31. Mrs. Hewel, who was very far from understanding such reasoning, and wept resentfully over the letter.

  32. He could not follow her rapid changes of mood, and had listened resentfully to her defence of her son.

  33. Occasionally, to be sure, one rather resentfully rode up or down in the elevator with some of the other tenants but always without noticing or speaking to them.

  34. I will be of far more use than you with your crippled arm," she resentfully insisted.


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