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Example sentences for "resenting"

Lexicographically close words:
resembling; resent; resented; resentful; resentfully; resentment; resentments; resents; reserue; reserued
  1. As though realizing and resisting, if not resenting this dissolution of his forces, his voice rang out querulously, and his head made dogmatic emphasis.

  2. Haven't I taught you, sir, that you must be above resenting the attacks of the vulgar herd?

  3. I don't wonder at a lad of spirit resenting my harsh, saturnine ways.

  4. The minister met her glance frankly and smilingly, and certainly did not seem to have any thought of resenting the young man's tone and manner.

  5. I won't be insulted by a drunken blackguard like you, without resenting it.

  6. No Paris a stol'n dame to Troy conveys, No witch Media here her brother slays: But slighted love must needs resenting be: And midst the waves who is the raging he Now rob'd of arms that can attempt my fate?

  7. Thus cheated in her expectations, she highly resenting it, asks whether her lips, her breath, or some ill scent of any part of her, offended me.

  8. There were no actresses in those days, sir," corrected Barnes, resenting the flippancy of his aristocratic auditor.

  9. The latter drew back as if resenting that familiar touch, and, by way of answer, poised the cylinder in a tiny holder and deliberately lighted it, to the amazement of his questioner.

  10. The tone was ingratiating, but resenting the intrusion, Paolo looked around and caught an expression that belied the smooth words, and made him instinctively distrust the stranger who had accosted him.

  11. Giovanni was indignant, resenting even the mention of such newfangled contrivances.

  12. Mina, remembering how he had terrorized the secret out of her before, and resenting the humiliation of the memory, stiffened her neck once more.

  13. The only animation she displayed was in resenting the reminder, and indeed denying the fact, that she had ever been other than absolutely happy and contented at Blent.

  14. Remembering his attack of fright, and resenting it excessively, Dobbs determined if possible to unearth the secret: and this was the third night he had come upon the watch.

  15. So Nash Caromel and Charlotte his wife set sail for New York; Mrs. Tinkle bitterly resenting the step, and wholly refusing to be reconciled.

  16. As late as 1912, when the coal crisis again became acute, Punch, though resenting the increased resort to the strike weapon, represents the merchant profiteer as in clover while Britannia is the victim of his avarice.

  17. On these occasions, instead of making a stand and resenting such uncivilized conduct, it would invariably beat a precipitate flight to the house where it was sure of finding protection.

  18. He is a very jealous husband, and will not permit any of the feathered denizens of the woods to approach, without resenting it in the most determined manner, and inflicting severe punishment.

  19. He walked about the bustling streets like one in a dream, resenting the sunshine, and wondering why all these people should be so happy.

  20. All the same, Stapledon is right in resenting this arrangement with all his heart and soul.

  21. I mean that when a man openly says that a woman is the best part of his life, her husband can't be blamed for resenting it.

  22. Come, a plain answer," said Quarles hotly, as though he were resenting an insult.

  23. A mean man, Wigan, one who cannot help resenting the success of others.

  24. So I discovered," I answered, and I was conscious of resenting the professor's active interference in the case.

  25. Neil met it steadily, not a sullen boy as he would have been under that questioning a year ago, not resenting it at all, but keeping his secrets deliberately.

  26. Mr. Ward had doubted this, being on the watch for slights to Neil and resenting them, though he never made an effort to prevent them.

  27. Him thus inactive, with an ardent look The prince beheld, and high-resenting spoke.

  28. Individually, many among them are meek and long-suffering enough, and would be as little capable of resenting a wrong as of revenging it.

  29. In Poland it is the patriot too, but of a more refined and etherealized type, passively resenting Tartar tyranny by the subtlest feminine scorn, and living in perpetual music and mourning.

  30. Of course we shall," fired Tod, resenting the remark.

  31. It has been said that "proud men never wholly forgive those to whom they feel themselves obliged," but their resenting benefits is the worst feature of their pride.

  32. And I take shame to myself that my folly has lost me the right of resenting your ridicule of a friend.

  33. I was ashamed of resenting so bitterly my own unhappiness.

  34. One of his numerous reasons for resenting her was that she was the taller of the two.

  35. And she gave no sign of resenting her employer's attitude.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "resenting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acid; acidulous; acrimonious; bitter; burning; caustic; choleric; embittered; rancorous; rankled; resentful; sore; splenetic; virulent