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How to use the word bitterly in a Sentence?

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Everyone is overstretched in that part of the world … there is an enormous amount do, people have fled their homes often standing around in bitterly cold conditions really without access to safe water. So water is key. Blankets, food, psychological support.

James Elder

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Both the Supreme Court and the American public are bitterly divided on the question of gun access.

Patrick Murray

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

After deliberation over many weeks and a thorough analysis of the entirety of Urban's tenure with our team, I am bitterly disappointed to arrive at the conclusion that an immediate change is imperative for everyone, i informed Urban of the change this evening. As I stated in October, regaining our trust and respect was essential. Regrettably, it did not happen.

Shad Khan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

An Australian swimmer returning a positive result is both bitterly disappointing and embarrassing to our team, our sport and our country, the ASADA agreement requires Swimming Australia to maintain confidentiality until such time as either ASADA or the individual athlete release details of an adverse result.

Leigh Russell

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

There's no reason why Wales can't perform exceptionally well, i think it's the greatest opportunity we've got to progress right to the latter stages. If we don't get to the quarterfinals, I'll be bitterly disappointed. We've got to be looking at semifinals at least really.

Dafydd James

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I'm going to go away bitterly bitterly disappointed but not entirely surprised, i can't say that I honestly thought the world was going to change -- because I know this institution too well -- and it seems incapable of change. And yet, it could do it.

Peter Saunders

Found on CNN
5 years ago

My mother's family was part Native American. And my daddy's parents were bitterly opposed to their relationship. So, in 1932, when Mother was 19 and Daddy had just turned 20, they eloped.

Whether Warren

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We all woke up this morning shocked and bitterly disappointed by the news from South Africa, it seemed completely beyond belief that the Australian cricket team had been involved in cheating. After all, our cricketers are role models and cricket is synonymous with fair play.

Malcolm Turnbull

Found on CNN
6 years ago

It does make you happy when you beat these guys, who you know are cheats, you're just bitterly disappointed when you finish second, at the start, I would shake their hands but now I try not to.

The Australian

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When the war ended, Richard headed home to Texas to a nation bitterly divided by race, and his service on the battlefield was not always matched by the respect that he deserved at home. But this veteran held his head high. He carried on and lived his life with honor and dignity.

President Obama in 2013

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The industry has been complaining bitterly for a decade about the haves-and-have-nots.

Dave Nadig

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile? Death thought about it. Cats, he said eventually. Cats are nice.

Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

added by anonymous
13 years ago

It is possible to love your friends, your competitors, and even your enemies. It is hard, bitterly hard, but there is a long distance between hard and impossible.

Herbert Welch

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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