How To Use Bitterly In A Sentence
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Similar struggles exist in east Malaysia, where the land rights of indigenous groups are bitterly disputed with loggers eager to harvest the timber for export.
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It was bitterly cold now and the ground was frozen hard.
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Although bitterly funny at times, the picture also creates a somber mood that is very affecting.
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The troops suffered atrocious conditions in bitterly cold winters, with temperatures down to minus 30C.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dundee United gorged themselves on a rich performance at Ibrox, but it was an afternoon which became bitterly unpalatable to Rangers.
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He is obviously bitterly disappointed.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is imprisoned for a year for having acted as Castlewood's second in the duel, for which Lady Castlewood bitterly reproaches him, and on his release joins the army and fights in the war of the Spanish Succession.
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I m good enough to share Richard's bed, she thought bitterly, hut he doesn't want to be seen in public with me.
YELLOW BIRD
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I m good enough to share Richard's bed, she thought bitterly, hut he doesn't want to be seen in public with me.
YELLOW BIRD
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She bitterly resented the fact that her husband had been so successful.
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In his recent annual address to the clergy the Bish. lamented bitterly that the American "jingo" was provoking dear patient Christian England to put on her war-paint.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
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I began to reflect on the bitterly frigid winter days of my youth, when I would sit outside in the backyard of the old house.
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Most of the occupants were brewery workers who on account of their early rising resented bitterly being told to take shelter.
Bomber
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It was bitterly cold now and the ground was frozen hard.
Red Coats and Rebels - the war for America 1770-1781
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The nights were bitterly cold, the days little warmer, the lack of light demoralizing.
DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
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I felt it had to be brought to the public's attention when last week, in bitterly cold weather, the players went into unheated shower rooms with only freezing cold water to shower in.
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I've covered stories about the market, and that the traders are complaining bitterly about its current placing (down Horne Lane).
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Any such thing would be bitterly opposed by most of the world's democracies.
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She makes some stuff which she calls farina out of it, and grieves bitterly that she is no longer young and spry enough to gather it for herself along the shore.
Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes
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According to St. Basil, forty soldiers who had openly confessed themselves Christians were condemned by the prefect to be exposed naked upon a frozen pond near Sebaste on a bitterly cold night, that they might feeze to death.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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When he played them he heard the Beatles legend complaining bitterly about pop critics.
The Sun
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The law was bitterly opposed by environmentalists.
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Here Doyle's rhetoric begins to echo the US men's movement that campaigns bitterly - if rather quietly - about women controlling the domestic agenda, and tyrannising men with their strident demands for independence.
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The Fascists had their roots in bitterly anticlerical Italian radical nationalism, Mussolini himself having been a Socialist leader until the First World War.
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But this was not the time for delay; I disencumbered the dogs of their dead companion, gave them a plentiful portion of food; and, after an hour's rest, which was absolutely necessary, and yet which was bitterly irksome to me,
Chapter 7
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It has long been an uphill struggle for new art in Italy, the country Marinetti bitterly castigated in 1909 as a gangrenous land of ‘professors, archeologists, ciceroni and antiquarians.’
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Its members have been responsible for some of the worst atrocities during the Troubles and bitterly oppose any decommissioning.
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Unemployment and inflation were low and the government was safe from a bitterly divided Conservative opposition.
The Sun
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At the time the brothers were bitterly divided over the conflict.
Times, Sunday Times
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My cellmate complained bitterly to someone at the door-grate that the stench was enough to choke a goat.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Other Republicans say the failure of their first package has left them bitterly divided over what strategy to follow now.
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Leroy bitterly opposed the plan for being cumbersome and costly.
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Sentimental children forever whining about how bitterly unfair your lives have been. Well,it may have escaped you notice, but life isn't fair.
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This is the language of a bitterly disappointed man.
DEVASTATING EDEN: The Search for Utopia in America
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I'll be bitterly merry, and ironically gay , and I'll laught in derision!
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I m good enough to share Richard's bed, she thought bitterly, hut he doesn't want to be seen in public with me.
YELLOW BIRD
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He complained bitterly about his exam grades.
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I feel more than a little awkward using hoodoo stuff, to be honest, given the vast gulf between my own advantages and the bitterly oppressed state of its originators.
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I'm the blamedest idiot out of an asylum," he cried bitterly.
A Daughter of the Dons A Story of New Mexico Today
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"It was a bitterly disappointing result and we did not play well, " he admitted.
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She was reportedly a tough character, bitterly acerbic and tragically alcoholic.
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The scene, so highly interesting to those who witnessed it, was to him insupportable, and he had left the room in agony, bitterly inveighing against his own folly, for having suffered it to take place, and secretly denouncing future vengeance upon the usurper of his rights, for so he basely termed the artless Yamboo.
Yamboo; or, the North American Slave
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More importantly, they were bitterly divided by politics.
Times, Sunday Times
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She shrieks at her sons, who berate her for not supporting the father, she weeps bitterly, tries to calm them.
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He bitterly denounced the administration of that pure Democrat, James Madison, and ridiculed what he termed the follies of Thomas Jefferson.
Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors
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Amidst the panegyrical promises of modernization and development, few voices, either left or right, questioned the ideology of progress, though many fought bitterly over the division of the spoils.
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We are bitterly upset at what has happened.
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In the Sierra Nevada's Owens Valley, though, he is bitterly regarded as the villain who stole farmers' water and drove them to ruin.
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A strong, gusty westerly made it feel bitterly cold but it was dry, and I was thankful for that.
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The girl's parents were bitterly disappointed at the jury's verdict.
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On the bitterly cold morning of Sunday 13 November 1715 the two armies were woken respectively by bagpipes and trumpets.
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Critics have also complained bitterly that the board failed to release financial records despite promises to do so.
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She notes that the ecotourism industry in the Balearic Islands fought bitterly against a government proposed tourist eco-tax of less than $1 a day to help offset environmental damage caused by tourist development.
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The police complain bitterly about being undervalued.
Times, Sunday Times
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The accused had been sexually abused himself as a child and now bitterly regretted the harm he had caused his daughters.
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He was aware, intimately and bitterly, that his dread had been his mother's first fateful gift to him.
THE OUTSIDER
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Dr. Lazarus, the chief of the medical department, tells us that the "river people," a term embracing those who own the temples on the stream -- just as we would say the "steel rail" or the "pig metal" people at home -- are very much depressed, complaining bitterly that the revenues have fallen away.
Round the World
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Women have warred, and still do, often bitterly, over what art qualifies as ‘feminist.’
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He dared not risk a fight with this young lightning-flash, and again he knew, and more bitterly, the enfeeblement of oncoming age.
The Famine
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He complained bitterly after being surprised by Pat Buchanan in an early primary about a pollster whose predictions had been too optimistic.
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Few, indeed, wanted to be in the army: many openly, cynically, bitterly denounced the war.
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Perhaps Shakespeare had particular reason when, in 1598, he had the bibulous Sir John Falstaff complain so bitterly on the subject of ‘thin potations’.
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I am branded as a bigamist, 'she added bitterly;' do you fancy I wish to add the title murderess to my name? '
A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg
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Here, any of you who love the Douglas, spurn me this quean from the monastery gates; and let her be so scourged that she may bitterly remember to the last day of her life how she gave means to an unrespective boy to affront the Douglas.
The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day
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But he failed to live up to the hype and will be bitterly disappointed.
The Sun
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Can he unite a bitterly divided America?
Times, Sunday Times
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Backley was bitterly disappointed when an injury prevented him from competing in the Olympic Games.
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Bitterly, he murmurs how he should have refuted the women and explained his innocence.
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This launched a massive plume of warm air high into the atmosphere that led to bitterly cold Arctic air being shunted down through Europe.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was ashamed and bitterly humiliated, and very lonely.
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At the time the brothers were bitterly divided over the conflict.
Times, Sunday Times
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You can imagine how people would've reacted to me," he said bitterly, `if they'd known I was an ex-con.
THE UNORTHODOX MURDER OF RABBI MOSS
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With an eye on the bottom line, the fab four bitterly resist any attempt to stop them exploiting one others' content.
Times, Sunday Times
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A bitterly cold winter damaged industrial output and trade.
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The girl's parents were bitterly disappointed at the jury's verdict.
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From first to last the case was bitterly contested, and always with the realization among those present -- except for that somber figure in black, whose beady eyes gimleted the defendant -- that it was another move in the fight between the rival copper kings.
Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain)
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The truth be told, (not by him of course), but really I'm missing old Georgie and his leotarded insanities from the UK scene and I'll be bitterly disappointed if he's inadvertantly shot or accidentally stoned to death by Hammas, found drowned in his hoummous or even electrified by his toothbrush in Gaza.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
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I have heard not one street-organ since, and I regret this bitterly.
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The most that would ever happen over WP is the same thing that happened with Abu Grahib – the blame would fall to some relatively low-ranking officer (ideally from the Reserves) who would take the fall but complain bitterly about it.
Think Progress » Exclusive: Classified Pentagon Document Described White Phosphorus As ‘Chemical Weapon’
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I was bitterly disappointed to have lost yet another race so near the finish.
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But it was still cold, only just above freezing, and I have a theory that skin infections of any kind, even a mild one like a stye, are liable to worsen when exposed to bitterly cold air.
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Somerville bitterly regretted his folly at becoming involved.
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The weather was at its worst; bitterly cold, with leaden skies that gave minimum visibility.
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Matt's mother went to sit down, beginning to weep bitterly.
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Andrew Reeder was governor of a bitterly divided territory. He wanted to warn President Pierce about what was happening.
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It was bitterly cold and Chavasse coughed, retching as the strong earthy stench caught at the back of his throat.
THE KEYS OF HELL
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Her parents had rowed bitterly and friends said she was often upset and moody because she was unhappy at home.
Times, Sunday Times
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Here at home, the country was bitterly divided before the Brexit vote and seems to remain so.
The Sun
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He said: 'I am bitterly disappointed to have been a part of this.
The Sun
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These often reviled one another bitterly and openly attacked the government beyond the bounds of reason.
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There are many in the party who are desperately and bitterly upset about what happened to Simon Crean, so they are not happy about having to choose another leader.
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It is right that this bitterly divisive chapter is closed in a way which holds all to account.
Times, Sunday Times
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he was bitterly disappointed
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Regional monopolies were bitterly fought for.
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it was bitterly cold
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she complained bitterly
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She is reminded bitterly of how she cropped her long hair short.
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But the move was bitterly opposed by Japan, which values the fish as a key ingredient in sushi.
The Sun
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My tormentor laughed bitterly.
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Maybe 50% will turn bitterly and secretly against the woman they paranoically perceive to be emasculating them on purpose - ball-breaking bitch, look what she's done to me - and in consequence, become actively abusive.
Archive 2009-04-01
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Voroshilov had even been bitterly opposed to the formation of mechanized units.13
Deathride
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But it also politicized us by brutally and bitterly fracturing our community.
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Most of the occupants were brewery workers who on account of their early rising resented bitterly being told to take shelter.
Bomber
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He complained bitterly after being surprised by Pat Buchanan in an early primary about a pollster whose predictions had been too optimistic.
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Nathan thought bitterly about how it was only his abnormality that made him suitable for Leila's purposes.
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The development was bitterly opposed by the local community.
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He revisits that bitterly disappointing period in his life and is philosophical about what went so wrong.
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Even wrapped up with an extra set of thermals under a drysuit and thick winter gloves, the water is bitterly cold.
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The pioneer is insensible to arguments touching the future supply… The want of foresight that permitted the destruction of these magnificent forests will be bitterly lamented.
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Taylor was bitterly disappointed to be dropped from the England side.
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His strategy of seeking an accommodation with Labour was bitterly opposed by many Liberals.
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At the same time, this system was bitterly opposed by the great majority of ordinary people.
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I m good enough to share Richard's bed, she thought bitterly, hut he doesn't want to be seen in public with me.
YELLOW BIRD
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The troops suffered atrocious conditions in bitterly cold winters, with temperatures down to minus 30C.
Times, Sunday Times
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Any such thing would be bitterly opposed by most of the world's democracies.
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This is a stereotype that is taken to often hilarious extremes in this bitterly black comedy.
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How many of us have complained bitterly if a stray dog comes into our garden and fouls before going on its way?
Superdog! Action plans that work for a happy and well-behaved pet
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To be sure, I would tell him how kindly I had myself been used upon that dry land he was so much afraid of, and how well fed and carefully taught both by my friends and my parents: and if he had been recently hurt, he would weep bitterly and swear to run away; but if he was in his usual crackbrain humour, or (still more) if he had had a glass of spirits in the roundhouse, he would deride the notion.
Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour
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Norah complained bitterly that her style had brought the company free publicity worth far more than it cost.
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I am bitterly disappointed and upset by our lack of organisation.
Times, Sunday Times
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But her own relatives were bitterly divided over whether she should live or die.
Times, Sunday Times
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We were told it would be just right, not too hot, but it was bitterly cold for the first two weeks we were there and then when we went to see a wildflower garden it was tipping down with rain.
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I m good enough to share Richard's bed, she thought bitterly, hut he doesn't want to be seen in public with me.
YELLOW BIRD
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The welfare reforms they opposed so bitterly have proved hugely popular.
The Sun
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It was bitterly cold now and the ground was frozen hard.
Red Coats and Rebels - the war for America 1770-1781
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I thought I was a servant of confidence" (un servitore di confidenza), he added, bitterly.
The Call of the Blood
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Hot and dry in summer, bitterly cold and exposed in winter, the Cevennes may be a harsh and unforgiving land but it possesses a raw, savage and inspiring beauty.
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A bitterly cold winter damaged industrial output and trade.
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The families and friends of those killed have responded bitterly to the litany of obfuscations and half-truths.
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On a bitterly cold, dark and dank afternoon at St Paul's Belfast, the yellow and blue shirted Newry side failed to rise to the occasion and in the end could scarcely complain about the result.
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The Italian club were bitterly disappointing in the first leg when they lacked pace and width.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the time the brothers were bitterly divided over the conflict.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bitterly fought contest was also overshadowed by allegations of voting fraud.
Times, Sunday Times
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Golda Meir once said that she believed the Arabs would one day make peace because an "Arab mother who loses a son in battle weeps as bitterly as any Israeli mother.
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The nights are still bitterly cold here and the 10 o'clock start will leave some clamminess.
England look to Steven Finn to give them cutting edge against Pakistan
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Black was bitterly disappointed after a disastrous batting collapse threatened to ruin the old boys' Schweppes debut.
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She readily lent an ear to the insinuations which Scarfe, also bitterly hurt, freely let out, and persuaded herself miserably that her boy was in the hands of an adventurer who had cajoled not only the boy but the father, and in short personated the proverbial viper at the fireside.
A Dog with a Bad Name
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Raca denotes indeed morosity, and lightness of manners and life: but fool judgeth bitterly of the spiritual and eternal state, and decreeth a man to certain destruction.
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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The industry, moreover, has now convinced almost all governments and world bodies to back the bitterly disputed technology.
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He bitterly regretted ever having mentioned it.
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I wept bitterly; and clasping my hands in agony, I exclaimed, "Oh! stars and clouds, and winds, ye are all about to mock me: if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness.
Chapter 17
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I would have cried bitterly, but I thought it beneath the dignity of a man, and a man too who had read [Greek: tôn ontôn, ta men eph 'hêmin ta douk eph' hêmin].
The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764
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He was bitterly disappointed not to get the job.
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How bitterly I hate any craftsman's cunning now!
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And the house flagrantly flaunts fortune cookies that contain ‘aphorisms’ instead of portents of kismet and fame (I urge you all to bitterly complain).
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As he had long since bitterly learned, any white man was as much dynamite as was the mysterious death-dealing missile he sometimes employed.
CHAPTER X
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It is a bitterly harsh regime, which punishes poor pupils by placing them in heavy iron fetters.
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Bitterly disappointed, Scott and his companions set out on the return journey.
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The graveside ceremony was brief (thankfully, as it was bitterly cold) and in spite of the slippery mud the pall-bearers did a sterling job of keeping the coffin aloft and lowering it into the grave without incident.
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It was a stupid thing to do and I bitterly regret it.
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The closing decades of the twentieth century tell a story that would bitterly disappoint those early preachers.
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It was bitterly cold now and the ground was frozen hard.
Red Coats and Rebels - the war for America 1770-1781
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I was bitterly disappointed to have lost yet another race so near the finish.
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He died deeply disappointed, bitterly aware that he had squandered his great gifts.
The Times Literary Supplement
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He grieved bitterly over his own ill-doings, and knew well what changes gentlehood would have demanded from him.
Framley Parsonage
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However, he is in coalition with a far-right nationalist party that bitterly opposes both steps.
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Look at the points total and we are bitterly disappointed with the amount we have got.
The Sun
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Though bitterly resenting her husband's faithlessness, she remains firm in her virtue.
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Then my mind cleared, I saw things as they really were and not as my sick heart painted them, and I said bitterly, What, we two ungrown youths track down a murderer?
Wicked Will
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It was a stupid thing to do and I bitterly regret it.
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It was bitterly cold now and the ground was frozen hard.
Red Coats and Rebels - the war for America 1770-1781
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I m good enough to share Richard's bed, she thought bitterly, hut he doesn't want to be seen in public with me.
YELLOW BIRD
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The move would also be bitterly opposed by employers in Britain and others who see immigration as vital to fuelling economic growth.
Times, Sunday Times
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Black was bitterly disappointed after a disastrous batting collapse threatened to ruin the old boys' Schweppes debut.
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She remained bitterly opposed to the idea of moving abroad.
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I m good enough to share Richard's bed, she thought bitterly, hut he doesn't want to be seen in public with me.
YELLOW BIRD
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He complained bitterly after being surprised by Pat Buchanan in an early primary about a pollster whose predictions had been too optimistic.
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As a stark background, the war-torn Russian populace bitterly voices its utter misery.
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These are the things which David so often and so bitterly complaineth of, and which with so much earnestness he contendeth and wrestleth with God to be delivered from.
Pneumatologia
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Under constant attack and enfeebled by the bitterly cold weather, the army and its followers were gradually destroyed in the passes leading to India and only a handful escaped.
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Been schmaltzy bitterly it for graphic design firms, archeozoic a headlong abstruse therefore how i was erstwhile dyslogistic to go this anethum and omg it was forficate to be so sniffy.
Rational Review
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The organisation bitterly resented the fact that food parcels were being dropped at the same time as bombs.
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A long-term relationship with a model ended bitterly in an excruciating kiss-and-tell newspaper article.
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His defection aggrieved her so bitterly, that the fiercest of her wrath turned upon him; and after a wrangle wherein all the parties concerned had made liberal use of those "aculeate and proper" words against which the wary Bacon warns his quarrelling readers, she flounced away into the darkness of the small hours of the stormy December morning, loudly avowing her determination never to see a sight of the ugly, dirty, mane-spirited poltroon, or open her lips to him as long as she had an eye or a tongue in her head.
Strangers at Lisconnel
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The Dutch steel erectors walked out of the site, to the cheers of the locked out workers, complaining bitterly about being ‘lied to’ by management.
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Golda Meir once said that she believed the Arabs would one day make peace because an "Arab mother who loses a son in battle weeps as bitterly as any Israeli mother.
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They were bitterly disappointed at the result of the game.
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But deep down she was miserable and bitterly unhappy with her figure - until she found the strength to transform herself.
The Sun
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On the radio yesterday, I heard the interview of one woman as she bitterly explained her situation as an aguna.
The Muqata
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This was surely better than a talent for barbing epigrams, and she led a worthier life at Cirey than in that Paris which Voltaire described so bitterly.
Voltaire
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In June 1969 a proposed Connolly commemoration parade through Belfast city centre was bitterly opposed by loyalists.
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She cried bitterly when she heard the news of his death
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Bitterly he reflected that at least John had no conscience to prey upon him; he did not fall asleep with his brain seething with conflicting arguments, and awake with the decision as far off as ever.
The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century
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Student B immediately slams it shut, complaining bitterly of hay fever.
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She complains bitterly when her younger sister helps herself to her cosmetics or clothes, yet seems to think that my rants about her own, er, ‘borrowing’ habits are merely signs of selfishness and bad temper on my part.
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It was bitterly cold now and the ground was frozen hard.
Red Coats and Rebels - the war for America 1770-1781
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What was he, she thought bitterly, an Olympic athlete?
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Republicans bitterly oppose sampling, saying it invents people for Democratic benefit.
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Republicans bitterly oppose sampling, saying it invents people for Democratic benefit.
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He said: 'I am bitterly disappointed to have been a part of this.
The Sun
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Trying to maintain a harmonious atmosphere among a squad where one out of every two players is sure to be bitterly disappointed at not being selected on a starting team is no easy task - especially when the stakes are so high.
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I was bitterly disappointed when I didn't get into university.
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Always bitterly exuberant, you see life as a pink spathe swathing a yellow spadix.
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Yet, a few days later, he writes, the Regent handed his letter to the Archbishop of Glasgow, saying, “Please you, my Lord, to read a pasquil,” an offence which Knox never forgave and bitterly avenged in his “History.”
John Knox and the Reformation
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He had often looked with wonder at the rock, and miauled bitterly and resentfully as man does in the face of a forbidding Providence.
Cat.
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Most of the occupants were brewery workers who on account of their early rising resented bitterly being told to take shelter.
Bomber
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If he could have seen the expression on Edith's face the night previous, as she looked on his besotted father, he would have cursed more bitterly than ever what he termed the blight of his life.
What Can She Do?
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I m good enough to share Richard's bed, she thought bitterly, hut he doesn't want to be seen in public with me.
YELLOW BIRD
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He got frostbite in his right foot while spending three hours fixing a car on a bitterly cold day in March.
The Sun
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The bitterly fought contest was also overshadowed by allegations of voting fraud.
Times, Sunday Times
