How to Use resentful in a Sentence

resentful

adjective
  • She gave me a resentful glare.
  • She is resentful about being demoted.
  • Some fans who will be a resentful.
    — Miami Herald, 8 June 2026
  • No one deserves to live the rest of their life angry and resentful.
    — Dr. Lobna Karoui, Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • As a result, our nation will cease to be resentful and afraid.
    — Carlos Curbelo, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The goal is to leave a reader thwarted and thrilled, not stumped and resentful.
    — Molly Young, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2022
  • White House staffers would feel less resentful of the favoritism.
    — T.a. Frank, The Hive, 1 June 2017
  • Then all three lead actors show up, needing a safe haven of their own and resentful that they were left for dead.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Each of you, in your own ways and to various degrees, seems to feel resentful.
    — Lori Gottlieb, The Atlantic, 12 Oct. 2020
  • This guards against folks feeling resentful when filling in for a colleague on leave.
    — Anne Kadet, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Instead of being resentful, take a deep breath and make an effort to find out what their point of view is.
    — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 6 Feb. 2022
  • Rather than adapting, many boys and men are left confused, resentful and aimless.
    — Chuka Emezue, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2025
  • People were skeptical and resentful and likely to be on board for a project one day and off the next.
    — Tom Ferrick, Philly.com, 17 Oct. 2017
  • What starts as small talk always ends up in heated debates that leave me feeling drained and resentful.
    — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Being bitter, resentful and just felt out mean will has never been good for our daughter ….
    — Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • This story of a resentful artist turned stay-at-home mom morphing into a dog claws its way out of the pile.
    — Hillary Kelly, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Dillingham did not grow resentful toward Finch for the lack of playing time.
    — Jon Krawczynski, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Santana is resentful that her father isn’t around to balance out her mother’s mood swings.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Nan, meanwhile, is resentful and jealous of the life Nanette gets to have on the outside.
    — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Angry, resentful, and tested, all Nina planned to do was quit her job and move on with her life.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Some may even feel a bit resentful after a while from the pressure of being the sole income earner.
    — Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 4 Aug. 2025
  • On the second take, Monk’s recall is more detailed and more resentful.
    — Harmony Holiday, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Those still talking to journalists—off the record—are depressed and resentful.
    — Daniel Treisman, Foreign Affairs, 2 Nov. 2022
  • But his memory haunts his party like a resentful ghost with his claim that he was forced to resign without due process.
    — Clarence Page, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2019
  • That leaves the volatile Joanne feeling shut out and bitterly resentful.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2026
  • The women in the family are resentful of the men in the family.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2021
  • But there have been many groups in music history where the woman becomes the face of the group and the guys get resentful.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2026
  • The reek began to overwhelm the culinary artistry of the chefs, who shot resentful glances at the weighing station.
    — Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Does that kind of thing happen in the workplace, too, where one person gets stuck and begins feeling resentful?
    — Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 2 Jan. 2022
  • Tensions have risen as locals grow resentful of hearing Mandarin on the street.
    — Laurel Chor, National Geographic, 1 Sep. 2020

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