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How to use the word resent in a Sentence?

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Truth is incontrovertible, ignorance can deride it, panic may resent it, malice may destroy it, but there it is.

Sir Winston Churchill

added by Normando
1 year ago

These videos are private and filmed in a private space. I resent that these became known to the public, i spent a night with my friends. We just partied, also in a boisterous way. I danced and sang.

Sanna Marin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I don't believe these feelings are mutually exclusive, i think you can admire what someone has, but also be jealous of what they have as a result of these implicit comparisons to yourself. So when you see the' real housewife' who drives a Bentley you can simultaneously admire her and resent her.

Jim Burroughs

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The View has had two successful conservative co-hosts in its 24-year history, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Meghan McCain, it's the most difficult seat to fill. In between, the ratings reflected the show wasn't working. ABC News producers kept hiring conservatives - such as Candace Cameron Bure and Jedediah Bila - who viewers found to be conciliatory to the other co-hosts. The secret formula is finding a Republican who actually disagrees about policy and politics, but the more liberal stars of the show openly resent that.

Ramin Setoodeh

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think there are people who resent having others tell them what to do.

Rabbi Asher Bush

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

He dismissed me as a racist, which I resent.

David Begley

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We've been fighting cancer for more than nine years now and we can't do any of the things we wanted to do. We really resent Monsanto for that.

Alberta Pilliod

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I come from the poor people. And I’ve been working my whole stinking career for people who don’t have a chance. And I really resent anybody saying I’m just doing this for the rich.

Orrin Hatch

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I like a cat because it does not disguise its selfishness with any flattering hypocrisies. Its attachment is not to yourself, but to your house. Let it but have food, and a warm lair among the embers, and it heeds not at whose expense. Then it has the spirit to resent aggression. You shall beat your dog, and he will fawn upon you; but a cat never forgives : it has no tender mercies, and it torments before it destroys its prey.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

added by Madeleine Quinn
7 years ago

I also resent the hypocrisy in some of what these people are saying.

Naasu Fofanah

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It will help Trump among hard-core Republicans and hurt him among independents, it will help him among those who resent the left and their protests and their disruptions. But it will hurt him among independents who don't like the chaos and the confusion.

Frank Luntz

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

So I did go to work on behalf of all these women's groups and children's groups because they needed a champion, it had nothing to do with any money whatsoever. And I resent deeply any effort by the Sanders campaign to so imply.

Bill Clinton

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The North Koreans really don't like the Chinese, they resent the hell out of the Chinese. They hate the idea that the Chinese can come in and tell them what to do. And the reality is the Chinese can't.

Mike Chinoy

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The voters that resent that haven't voted for AKP anyway. Among the AKP supporters, whatever AKP does is right.

Yilmaz Esmer

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Some resent being called sinners, but when pastoral oversight and charitable concern for others falters, lives are sooner or later, in this life or the next, brought to destruction.

Francis Cardinal George, OMI

added by anonymous
8 years ago

Some babies resent not being taken seriously, they might become very responsible, like the oldest, or social, like the middle.

Linda Campbell

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The thing that I really resent is the way in which these, our dead comrades ... who died using the same implement that I use, which is a pen or pencil, have been almost immediately vilified and called racists and I don't know what else.

Salman Rushdie

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The French satirical tradition has always been very pointed and very harsh, and still is, you know, the thing that I really resent is the way in which these, our dead comrades ... who died using the same implement that I use, which is a pen or pencil, have been almost immediately vilified and called racists and I don't know what else.

Salman Rushdie

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

When (former president Gen. Pervez) Musharraf sided with the U.S. in 2001 after the 'you are either with us or against us' line from (then-President George W.) Bush, this is when the Taliban began to resent the military.

Raza Rumi

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.

Bernard Mandeville

added by anonymous
10 years ago

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Barbara De Angelis

added by anonymous
10 years ago

We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent the life weve created for ourselves? Whos to blame, whos to credit, but us? Who can change it anytime we wish, but us?

Richard Bach, One

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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