BITTERNESS in a Sentence

Learn BITTERNESS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
267 example sentences for BITTERNESS, such as:
1. The ensuing argument had been bitter.
2. Every heart knows its own bitterness.
3. Although again sweet candy, also has a bitter day.
4. Learning is a bitter root, but it bears sweet fruit.
5. They were caring again with a cold ruthless bitterness.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of BITTERNESS
bitterness
 n.  a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will
 n.  the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  All three wore home-dyed mourning, all were worn, sad, worried, all bitter with a bitterness that did not sulk or complain but, nevertheless, peered out from behind their smiles and their words of welcome.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
2  There was an air of studied and determined cheerfulness about the whole family which brought a colder chill to Scarlett's bones than the bitterness of Mimosa or the deathly brooding of Pine Bloom.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
3  They left bitterness to their women and their old people.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
4  His mild pale eyes showed more hate and bitterness than she thought possible.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
5  Don't you think I realize the bitterness of our situation, living here on your charity-- Oh, yes, Scarlett, your charity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
6  She had no feeling of shame or disappointment or bitterness now, only a weakness of the knees and a great emptiness of heart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
7  Scarlett, watching the flying fingers, heard the laughter and looked at them all with concealed bitterness and contempt.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
8  An ageless dignity, a timeless gallantry still clung about them and would cling until they died but they would carry undying bitterness to their graves, a bitterness too deep for words.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
9  They were caring again with a cold ruthless bitterness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
10  For the first time, she felt a kinship with the people about her, felt one with them in their fears, their bitterness, their determination.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
11  No, she didn't want her children raised in this welter of hate and uncertainty, of bitterness and violence lurking just below the surface, of poverty and grinding hardships and insecurity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
12  "Yes, it's done now," he said with slow bitterness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
13  These girls who had come to maturity since the surrender had only childish memories of the war and lacked the bitterness that animated their elders.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
14  Melanie with cool dignity and India with acid bitterness saw to that.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
15  Rhett watched the train until it was out of sight and on his face there was a look of speculative bitterness that was not pleasant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
Example Sentence: (57 in 4 pages)
1  The Los Angeles riots reflected the bitterness between the black and Korean communities in the city.
2  A letter contains bitterness,taking away yearning and leaving loving thoughts behind.
3  It was a community/nation/family riven by jealousy, hatred and bitterness.
4  Every heart knows its own bitterness.
5  The rift within the organization reflects the growing bitterness of the dispute.
6  Suffering was easier to bear than the bitterness he felt corroding his spirit.
7  The latest bombing would exacerbate England's already existing bitterness against the IRA, causing the prime minister to break off the peace talks abruptly.
8  I had left this woman in bitterness and hate, and I came back to her now with no other emotion than a sort of compassion for her great sufferings.
9  Such mega-events have undergirded determination in government and the public alike to move on longstanding issues of housing and infrastructure; a flood of public-works projects have accelerated a profound reshaping of Rio de Janeiro, often in ways that reanimate bitterness over racial and class divisions.
10  Learning is a bitter root, but it bears sweet fruit.
11  They had a bitter quarrel about/over some money three years ago and they haven't spoken to each other since.
12  Although again sweet candy, also has a bitter day.
13  The ensuing argument had been bitter.
14  The parents were locked in a bitter battle for custody.
15  Allen is fighting a bitter custody battle over his three children.