How to Use resentful in a Sentence

resentful

adjective

• She gave me a resentful glare.
• She is resentful about being demoted.
• In 415, Athaulf was attacked by a resentful servant and stabbed in the groin; the wound soon proved to be lethal.
  — Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2023
• The goal is to leave a reader thwarted and thrilled, not stumped and resentful.
  — Molly Young, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2022
• No one deserves to live the rest of their life angry and resentful.
  — Dr. Lobna Karoui, Forbes, 27 May 2021
• Tensions will run high, and all of you will grow resentful.
  — Annie Lane, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Feb. 2023
• The women in the family are resentful of the men in the family.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2021
• The earth doesn’t need one more resentful, depressed sort.
  — Kendra Nordin Beato, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 May 2020
• As a result, our nation will cease to be resentful and afraid.
  — Carlos Curbelo, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2022
• Each of you, in your own ways and to various degrees, seems to feel resentful.
  — Lori Gottlieb, The Atlantic, 12 Oct. 2020
• Instead of being resentful, take a deep breath and make an effort to find out what their point of view is.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 6 Feb. 2022
• The Cayuse grew resentful, and were probably driven over the edge by a measles outbreak that seemed to spare whites but not their own.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 May 2021
• Buyers are resentful that the low-cost mortgages are gone.
  — Conor Dougherty, New York Times, 10 June 2023
• This story of a resentful artist turned stay-at-home mom morphing into a dog claws its way out of the pile.
  — Hillary Kelly, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2021
• That has made Haideri and other shop owners more resentful of the urban elites in Kabul.
  — Sudarsan Raghavan, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Oct. 2021
• His childhood best friend (Morris), who happens to be the franchise star of the 76ers, grows jealous and resentful.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 13 Oct. 2021
• On the second take, Monk’s recall is more detailed and more resentful.
  — Harmony Holiday, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2023
• This guards against folks feeling resentful when filling in for a colleague on leave.
  — Anne Kadet, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2022
• This could at least get you resentful compliance for the moment.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 17 July 2021
• Does that kind of thing happen in the workplace, too, where one person gets stuck and begins feeling resentful?
  — Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 2 Jan. 2022
• As soon as the soldiers departed, the water cascaded from the pipe, and the resentful mood abated.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 23 July 2022
• Tensions have risen as locals grow resentful of hearing Mandarin on the street.
  — Laurel Chor, National Geographic, 1 Sep. 2020
• Over the past decade, protests have flared as many Iranians have grown resentful of those limitations.
  — Eliza MacKintosh, CNN, 22 Sep. 2022
• Its fantasias are more melancholic, its themes of longing more resentful.
  — Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 7 Nov. 2022
• The longer the hiring process takes, the more likely the rest of the staff will grow resentful of all the work that’s been dumped upon them without any additional compensation.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
• Apatow and Stoller can’t make a star of resentful, hang-dog Eichner.
  — Armond White, National Review, 30 Sep. 2022
• Are students resentful about the restrictions, or pushing back against them?
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 27 Apr. 2020
• Harris took a hard line on insubordination from the men, some of whom were resentful.
  — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Oct. 2021
• Their people will not feel drained or resentful after work because they are needed and grateful.
  — Kalina Terzieva, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
• The marketing team can’t do anything about these things and may feel resentful if their performance is dinged because of these issues.
  — Ali Jawin, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024