Sample Sentences forrankle (auto-selected)
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Atticus's remarks were still rankling, which made me miss the request in Jem's question. (source)rankling = causing annoyance
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It was also, in my opinion, one of the things that a John Proctor would rebel against, for the time of the armed camp had almost passed, and since the country was reasonably—although not wholly—safe, the old disciplines were beginning to rankle.† (source)
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Leaving this Parthian shaft to rankle in Anne's stormy bosom, Marilla descended to the kitchen, grievously troubled in mind and vexed in soul.† (source)
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Pearl felt the sentiment, and requited it with the bitterest hatred that can be supposed to rankle in a childish bosom.† (source)
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Blasted as thou wert, my agony was still superior to thine, for the bitter sting of remorse will not cease to rankle in my wounds until death shall close them forever.† (source)
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She could not keep out of her voice the bitterness that had rankled all these weeks.† (source)
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The sly arrogance of the comment rankled him.† (source)
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At the time of the pig roast, it was still rankling my father that Harold suddenly, in March, and without telling my father ahead of time, bought a brand-new, enclosed, airconditioned International Harvester tractor with a tape cassette player, for playing old Bob Wills recordings over and over while working in the fields, and not only the tractor, but a new planter as well.† (source)
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I was proud of my sister, but that year, something began to rankle beneath the pride.† (source)
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This is what rankles, what pollutes Mama's kindness, her rescues and her acts of courage.† (source)
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I Sit and Look Out I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame, I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men at anguish with themselves, remorseful after deeds done, I see in low life the mother misused by her children, dying, neglected, gaunt, desperate, I see the wife misused by her husband, I see the treacherous seducer of young women, I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to be hid, I see these sights on the earth, I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny, I see martyrs and prisoners, I observe a famine at sea, I observe the sailors casting lots who shall be kill'd to preserve the l† (source)
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But still he did not know what this Fremen wanted and this rankled.† (source)
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I'm looking at a security memo that's a little, actually, rankling.† (source)
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IT CAME TO RANKLE CALL that Gus had left his half of the cattle herd to the woman.† (source)
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Its remembrance rankles still in the bosoms of millions of the countrymen of those brave men who lost the day.† (source)
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"Dobby," growled Harry; this injustice still rankled.† (source)
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