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How to use the word rancor in a Sentence?

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When I was back in college, free speech was welcomed, you had a free exchange of ideas without any type of rancor, and I'm not so sure that's the case anymore.

Greg Murphy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

So, but it was a bit, kind of intimidating when I sat down with them because they were so not used to this, and I think that Kris very consciously didn't want it to have the rancor that some' Housewives' reunions have, or the, you know, level of acrimony.

Andy Cohen

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If we are about to try to impeach a president, where is the chief justice? If the accused is no longer president, where is the constitutional power to impeach him? impeachment is for removal from office and the accused here has already left office. Hyper-partisan Democrats are about to drag our great country into the gutter of rancor and vitriol the likes of which has never been seen in our nation's history.

Rand Paul

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

They are not getting along very well these days among themselves. It's a period of real partisan rancor, i don't want it to spill over and affect us.

Antonin Scalia

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We saw something striking happen the next morning on the The House floor, republicans who knew John Dingell, and are friends with Debbie Dingell, went up to her on the floor and were very apologetic for the President, hugging her, embracing her, including Louie Gohmert, who is one of President Trump's number one attack dogs in the The House, apologizing for the President. It's a reminder that even though this partisan rancor has hit a fever pitch in Washington amid all the impeachment, there is some decency, still, in the halls of Congress.

Washington Post

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I'm sure she has her fair share of trauma and anxiety and so on, but she never lets it get to her. She always just keeps going. And there's no rancor, if you'd been falsely accused of murder and convicted and falsely imprisoned for several years, you would presumably feel some rancor towards the people who did that to you, but she doesn't. She works really hard to feel empathy and curiosity and compassion towards everybody -- including her prosecutors.

Jon Ronson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

So You've Been Publicly Shamed, i'm sure she has her fair share of trauma and anxiety and so on, but she never lets it get to her. She always just keeps going. And there's no rancor.

Jon Ronson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Let us forget such words, and all they mean, as Hatred, Bitterness and Rancor, Greed, Intolerance, Bigotry. Let us renew our faith and pledge to Man, his right to be Himself, and free.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

added by Normando
5 years ago

This is rancor and politics as usual, it flies in the face of democratic institutions and the checks and balances that are intended to prevent power-hungry politicians from clinging to control when they do not get their way.

Tony Evers

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It is not fair to conclude with so much ease that accords reached without your presence constitute a betrayal of the country, nor should you continue to stoke rancor and revenge in the minds of a large portion of Colombians.

Rodrigo Londono

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It's one of the few regrets of my presidency -- that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better, i have no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I'll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's one of the few regrets of my presidency? -- ?that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better, there's no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I'll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Balls of fire are falling over our heads amid the screams of children and women, why all that shelling? There are no weapons or fighters here. They (the rebels) want to terrorize us and drive us out. This is only rancor and hate.

Anis Othman

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The dragon spits fire, what extinguishes its tears. When we live in rancor, we are born to be old. (Le dragon crache du feu, - Ce qui éteint ses larmes. - Quand on vit de rancune, - On naît pour être vieux.)

Charles de LEUSSE

added by anonymous
9 years ago

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