begrudges

Example Sentences

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Yet Valentina is quick to say that she hardly begrudges her parents, whom she describes as both hard-working and deeply loving.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2023

“No one begrudges a nation that generates the most innovative ideas and from them develops the best technology,” John Demers, former assistant attorney general for national security, said in a 2018 hearing before the U.S.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2023

You will be hard-pressed to find anyone who begrudges her absence from the celebrations; in more than seven decades of service, she has given so much.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2022

No one begrudges the man who walked behind his mother’s coffin a rush of joy at the birth of his first child.

From The Guardian • May 7, 2019

I found out to-day that Mrs. McSorley rather begrudges Maggie her home, although she feels it her duty to keep her.

From Brenda's Bargain A Story for Girls by Reed, Helen Leah