How to Use rancor in a Sentence

rancor

noun

• In the end, the debate created a degree of rancor among the committee members.
• She answered her accusers calmly and without rancor.
• And the rancor was not contained to the meeting itself.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2021
• Their presence added some spice to the game, not the rancor when Yankees fans invade.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2022
• The rancor and division that has been the main feature of our politics over the past decades would fade.
  — Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2022
• In this time of rancor and division, Cox said Utahns must lead as an example to the rest of the nation.
  — Bethany Rodgers, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Jan. 2022
• In ceding the floor to Joan, and tracing Ted’s path without a hint of rancor, James has made a bold artistic and moral choice.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2023
• Meyer blamed the rancor on some members of the board as well as top DNR officials.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Oct. 2021
• Judge declined the offer without rancor and the sides remain on good terms.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2022
• When things get hairy, Boba resorts to a drastic measure: bring out the rancor.
  — Carson Burton, Variety, 5 Aug. 2022
• Speculation over the source of the letter’s leak is adding fuel to the council rancor.
  — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
• Though the endeavor failed by a vote of 3 to 2, the rancor bothered Ms. Young, who sees books as a way to foster a love of reading in her students.
  — New York Times, 8 June 2022
• The event is also notably free of rancor, a New York rarity.
  — Sadie Stein, Town & Country, 17 Aug. 2021
• Here the façade of bonhomie gets scraped away easily, leaving the rancor exposed like old brick.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2023
• Amid all the rancor, the church’s pastor asked to take a short sabbatical and never returned.
  — Greg Jaffe and Patrick Marley, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Aug. 2023
• On the other side, Randy Bishop eyes the King Orchards farm stand with similar rancor.
  — New York Times, 6 June 2021
• After all of the delays and rancor, some skepticism is in order.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2021
• Progress on those fronts might make possible, in a future of less partisan rancor, the wider reforms that now seem out of reach.
  — Reihan Salam, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
• The deal came at a cost, though, with years of public rancor again casting both owners and players as money obsessed.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 10 Mar. 2022
• In some ways, this is a repeat of the intra-party rancor that ensued as the Party assessed its loss of thirteen House seats in the 2020 election.
  — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2021
• There’s still plenty of rancor and fury in Washington as the two parties battle for power.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 6 Mar. 2023
• The attack on you 10 years ago underscored the political rancor of that time.
  — Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2021
• The aim is to revitalize the democratic process while draining some of the rancor out of politics.
  — New York Times, 6 Apr. 2022
• But the improvements are so stark and so palpable that the amount of negative rancor is baffling.
  — Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
• Israel-Palestine at the heart of the rancor While antisemitism has come from both right- and left-wing sources, the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is at the heart of much of the rancor.
  — Deena Yellin, USA TODAY, 24 June 2023
• After years of legal rancor, most of Thornton’s neighbors grudgingly agree that the city has a legal right to the water from up north.
  — Jeremy Anderberg, Longreads, 6 Sep. 2023
• The rancor escalated this week as Congress entered the fray.
  — David Gelles, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• The king’s crown has raised the stakes considerably, demanding that Charles III stand above the rancor and division of day-to-day politics.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 May 2023
• While the sides preserved a full regular season, the cost was rancor that cast both owners and players as money obsessed.
  — Ronald Blum, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Mar. 2022
• The band’s classic lineup broke up in 2003 amid personal issues that produced much public sniping and rancor in the press.
  — cleveland, 20 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024