Resent Sentence Examples

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  • Did he resent everything he was pushed into?

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  • Maybe she would even begin to resent him for it.

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  • Did he resent the way she was taking over his dream?

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  • Would he resent her money?

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  • Do they resent that your father wants only a son for an heir?

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  • Some diners resent the fact that the tip is included in the bill.

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  • Will I resent the sacrifices I must make in order to raise my child?

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  • This includes trips to the store, work hours, etc. However, try to limit the amount of time you leave your pup in the crate, or he will grow to resent it.

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  • They may also resent the additional household duties expected of them.

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  • Often dance instructors will include jazz dance and modern moves in with their "hip hop" choreography, and purists would resent that kind of dance being labeled as such.

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  • You sound as though you resent him and are even jealous of him.

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  • This is not about me In many ways I resent what you just said.

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  • Many resent having to wear eyeglasses because they feel that it detracts from their face, but this couldn't be farther from the truth, especially if you select the proper frame.

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  • In addition, other employees often resent having to cover for working mothers who come in late, leave early, or miss work on short notice because of their child's needs.

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  • Many teenagers resent it when their divorced mom starts dating again, but in Buffy's case, mom's new love interest turned out to be a human-appearing and malfunctioning robot.

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  • You really want to spend eternity with someone you resent?

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  • Charles was powerless openly to resent these outrages, but he obtained from the provincial assemblies the money refused him by the statesgeneral, and deferred his vengeance until the dissensions of his enemies should offer him an opportunity.

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  • If he was half the man they believed him to be – and if she was half as bad as these two related to her – he'd resent her for the rest of their lives.

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  • Thus Protestant learners often become the unwitting confidantes of Catholic Irish speakers who bitterly resent the republican image of the Irish language.

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  • The majority of parents make similar sacrifices within their means and resent the insinuation that they are less caring.

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  • They may resent interference from health professionals attempting to make changes which they do not perceive to be correct.

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  • He seemed to resent the intrusion of a human being in such an unfrequented spot.

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  • We strongly resent the abuse of our poverty to sway the interests of the European public.

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  • People who happily resent being slandered but think nothing of slandering the name of another?

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  • In babies and small children scurvy also causes bleeding under the bone membranes, causing very tender swellings so that infants resent being touched.

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  • Ordinary citizens resent the intrusion of government into intimate decisions.

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  • We really resent the night time disturbance whilst we are not troubled by the day flights at all.

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  • Depending on the severity and location of the skin rash, the child may withdraw from social activities to avoid teasing or resent restrictions on athletic or other outdoor activities.

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  • The humans of Earth greatly resent the robots who take over their jobs, and there is a move afoot to legislate them off the planet altogether.

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  • I also resent the implication that I would attempt to defraud you.

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  • Two things might happen if you do this, they may resent you for talking negatively about their mom or dad, or they may become rebellious towards the other parent.

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  • About 25 percent resent other family members who do not provide any help in the care.

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  • Company employees may resent the fact that some work is being outsourced and may be reluctant or refuse to work with the outsource staff.

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  • If your wife has a big presentation on Monday, she's not going to be able to focus on your time together, and she may actually resent you taking her away from her work at such a crucial time - certainly not the best atmosphere for romance.

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  • In spite of these reforms the Silesians, who felt severely the financial exactions of Matthias, began to resent the control of the Bohemian crown.

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  • It is remarkable that he should not have discovered in her the qualities so obvious to modern champions of her character - easiness, gullibility, incurable innocence and invincible ignorance of evil, incapacity to suspect or resent anything, readiness to believe and forgive all things.

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  • At first the House of Commons was disposed to resent the apparent neglect with which it was treated by being asked to accept a deputy as its leader in place of a Prime Minister who washimself an M.P.; and cries for "Lloyd George " were raised when Mr. Law rose to play the leader's part in the debate on the Address in 1917.

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  • Shanty Town Project We, the year seven's were asked to build a shanty house following our resent studies on shanty Town Project We, the year seven's were asked to build a shanty house following our resent studies on shantytowns in Nairobi.

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  • The teleprinters produced a punched tape, which could be resent via another teleprinter link.

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  • And he was so touchy, too, so ready to resent opposition.

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  • This action, however, did not meet with the approval of MacMahon, who feared that the Arabs would resent it as an infraction of the religious peace, and thought that the Mahommedan church, being a state institution in Algeria, ought to be protected from proselytism; so it was intimated to the prelate that his sole duty was to minister to the colonists.

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  • For this criticism he has himself constantly been reproved, and Tennyson (whose impatience of anything like censure was phenomenal) continued to resent it to the end of his life.

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  • And you tend to resent when others " sell " religion to you.

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  • I kind of resent paying to get into a pub regardless of who is playing.

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  • I decide it 's a bad idea, and resent spending £ 20 on the domain name.

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  • You may have gathered that I have become a complete homebody and really resent going out.

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  • One firm we came across recently seems to resent doing this, choosing to stretch the law to its limits.

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  • Shanty Town Project We, the year seven 's were asked to build a shanty house following our resent studies on shantytowns in Nairobi.

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  • But Inspector Burns was a stolid character; and was either too stupid or too clever to resent such trifles.

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  • Unsurprisingly, this is an assumption which the many able, well-behaved pupils deeply resent.

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  • Being agile is a challenge to founders with cowboy mentalities; they resent having to submit an expense report to get reimbursed.

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  • She may resent the fact that such a tiny being is receiving all of this attention.

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  • Your kids will start to resent you for saying bad things about their other parent.

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  • They may resent one parent because they see that he/she is starting most of the arguments and blame him/her for the end of the separation.

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  • You will resent it because it is keeping you away from what you need to do and you won't experience the true benefits of it.

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  • I'm guessing, though, that the ex-girlfriend will resent your daughter at least a little bit, because she'll be jealous (especially if the ex-girlfriend was the one who got dumped).

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  • Even if you are the best basketball player in high school since Shaq, if you think you are better than the other players, they are likely to resent you.

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  • Some couples keep the cards and may grow to resent the tone of the card, given on the happiest day of their life, over the years.

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  • This will make him resent the crate and not consider it his safe haven.

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  • While you may resent having your bees and butterflies used as an easy meal, it's hard not to admire the strategy.

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  • On the other hand, some men whose wives earn higher incomes than they do may come to resent the demands of the wife's job.

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  • Bruce "orders" everyone to take a family vacation to Colorado, but that just makes everyone resent the fact they are there.

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  • The non-Weyr population has become used to life without thread and resent the tribute they must pay to keep the Weyrs living in luxury to fight a threat that may not exist any more.

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  • The angels that resent mans ability to choose, to deny and even to vilify God's gifts, want to destroy this creation in honor of their own creator.

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  • Henry, who was present in person at the trial, had the good sense not to resent the defeat, but took the counsel to whose advocacy it was due into his service.

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  • From the idea that the gall-bladder was the dominating organ of a bitter, sharp temperament, "gall" was formerly used in English for such a spirit, and also for one very ready to resent injuries.

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  • Instantly the grinding of his teeth stopped, and his ragged breathing began to slow.  He uncurled, and she withdrew her hand before he disappeared from the dream again.  Even so, she wasn't able to shake the warmth of his magic flying up her arm and through her, reminding her of what it was like being near him when she was alive.  Even the skin of a half-demon was smooth and warm.  She used to resent the way his touch made her feel like she belonged to him, until she'd walked into the Caribbean knowing he might never touch her again.

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  • And yet he, who was generally the haughtiest and most irritable of mankind, who was but too prompt to resent anything which looked like a slight on the part of a purse-proud bookseller, or of a noble and powerful patron, bore patiently from mendicants, who, but for his bounty, must have gone to the workhouse, insults more provoking than those for which he had knocked down Osborne and bidden defiance to Chesterfield.

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  • If he was half the man they believed him to be – and if she was half as bad as these two related to her – he'd resent her for the rest of their lives.

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  • In doing this it is needful to remember that bees resent outside interference with either their work or their hives, and will resolutely defend themselves when aroused even at the cost of life itself.

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  • Only very few poisonous snakes (like Naja elaps) are known to resent the approach of man so much as to follow him on his retreat and to attack him.

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  • They began to resent this, and one of their chiefs, Munisa (Munuza), made himself independent in the north and allied himself with Odo, king of Aquitaine, who gave him his daughter in marriage.

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  • Their comrades in the quarters resent this pretension and declare that when in contact with the people the vaisseaux make bad blood by their arrogance and want of tact.

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  • The Iberians still reverence as saints the Armenian doctors of the 5th century, but as early as 552 they began to resent the dictatorial methods of the Armenians, as well might a proud race of mountaineers who never wholly lost their political independence; and they broke off their allegiance to the Armenian see very soon afterwards, accepted Chalcedon and joined the Byzantine church.

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  • Maximilian was not Maxi- slow to resent this interference; he refused to appoint mi/ian a president, and soon succeeded in making the meetings hampers of the council impossible.

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  • We have seen how closely the serpent is associated with water generally (§ 5 seq.), and since we meet with the belief that sources will dry up when the serpent-occupant is killed (Bechuanas, Zulus), or that they will resent impurities thrown into their springs by causing storms (tribes of the Hindu-Kush), it is not surprising to find elaborate precautions for the propitiation of such powerful beings.

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  • There are students of the 15th century in France who resent this intrusion of the Italian Renaissance.

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  • Nicholas could not believe that Christian powers would resent his claim to protect the Christian subjects of the sultan; he believed he could count on the friendship of Austria and Prussia; as for Great Britain, he would try to come to a frank understanding with her (hence the famous conversations with Sir Hamilton Seymour on the 9th and, 4th of January 1853, reviving the " Sick Man" arguments of 1844), but in any case he had the assurance of Baron Brunnow, his ambassador in London, that the influence of Cobden and Bright, the eloquent apostles of peace, was enough to prevent her from appealing to arms against him.

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  • Giustiniani explains that he had to make proposals to the cardinal before he broached them to Henry, lest Wolsey "should resent the precedence conceded to the king."

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  • But as heir to the throne he had a right to resent the degradation of the crown he was to inherit, and the power of a favourite who was his mother's lover.

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