How to Use sour grapes in a Sentence

sour grapes

plural noun

• That’s sour grapes, and all people care about is the score, to be honest with you.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2021
• So is current criticism of Trump the result of sour grapes over the past?
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 12 Nov. 2022
• That’s certainly true for me, and my saying that is not sour grapes.
  — al, 26 Oct. 2021
• To be sure, Blatter’s remarks carry a strong note of sour grapes.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2022
• Should this be viewed as anything more than sour grapes over Trump’s defeat?
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 28 Dec. 2020
• Paxton has not been charged and has sought to cast the accusations as sour grapes.
  — Gregory Krieg, CNN, 25 Feb. 2022
• It’s one of those things where people understand it’s sour grapes with Trump here.
  — Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2022
• French suspicions of cheating used to seem like sour grapes.
  — The Economist, 25 July 2019
• Risch suggested that some of these complaints might amount to Democrat sour grapes.
  — Nicole Gaouette and Laura Koran, CNN, 30 Sep. 2017
• Trump took to Twitter to dismiss the stories as Democratic sour grapes.
  — Daniel Politi, Slate Magazine, 15 Feb. 2017
• Meanwhile, snowboarders around the state, and perhaps even the country, were eating sour grapes.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Sep. 2023
• Tellingly, no conspicuous voice has been raised to accuse him of sour grapes or being a bad sport.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2017
• Save yourself the sour grapes by avoiding the most overrated tourist attractions.
  — Taylor Bell, USA TODAY, 19 July 2019
• Tesson, being French and conversant with La Fontaine, regards this as an instance of sour grapes.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
• Europe’s version of techlash often looks like sour grapes.
  — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
• For Frantz, however, the fond memories of making Naked far outweigh the sour grapes of its aftermath.
  — Ron Hart, Billboard, 26 Mar. 2018
• In one typical clip, the commentator Graeme Souness suggested the protests were sour grapes.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 3 May 2021
• But to dismiss the concerns as no more than sour grapes underestimates the real problem.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 21 May 2021
• The tongue desiccated and parched, the oversteeped and forgotten tea, the tilting-toward-decay fizziness of sour grapes.
  — Stephanie Danler, Time, 4 Nov. 2022
• These were people protesting their rights being taken away, not people protesting over a sour grapes lost election.
  — Chicago Tribune, 30 July 2022
• Some Meta executives have spoken about the generative A.I. boom with a distinct air of sour grapes.
  — Mike Isaac, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2023
• His arguments surely will play well in Champaign, but will come off as sour grapes nationally.
  — Shannon Ryan, chicagotribune.com, 10 Mar. 2021
• Now the team has to tune out all of the sour grapes talk and prepare for a talented if somewhat inconsistent Tar Heels squad that mixed impressive wins with some very puzzling losses.
  — Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2020
• Kasich insists that his opposition to the president is not driven by sour grapes.
  — Peter Baker New York Times, Star Tribune, 17 Aug. 2020
• For one, the optics of trying to change the recall process after someone was successfully recalled gave the impression of sour grapes, Kousser said.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2021
• That will be sour grapes for Californian wineries and hard cheese luck for Midwestern dairy farmers.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2017
• All the clamoring about sourcing and so forth on social media, which could seem like petty sour grapes, was really about something much bigger.
  — Amy Wilentz, The New Republic, 25 May 2022
• American Airlines's plan for its unopened wine product as the coronavirus pandemic limits the sale of alcohol aboard flights is staving off a case of sour grapes.
  — Carly Roman, Washington Examiner, 21 Jan. 2021
• Over the past decade, the idea that the higher-education bubble is about to burst has been waved away as headline pessimism or conservative sour grapes over the leftward drift of college faculties.
  — Allen C. Guelzo, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2019
• There is also the small matter of widespread allegations of malfeasance and corruption involved in the bidding process, and some lingering sour grapes that the United States missed out because of it.
  — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 13 July 2018

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024