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
• One question remains: Is this all born from a case of sour grapes?
  — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 28 Feb. 2024
• 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
• Seems like the California county may be dealing with a little bit more than just some sour grapes.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 20 Mar. 2024
• 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
• Another given: There’s bound to be sour grapes on the part of studios, who could have commanded a distribution fee of anywhere from 8 percent to 15 percent.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 10 Oct 2024