embitter
Example Sentences
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Hardship did not embitter Lucy Larcom, and she never lost her love of books and gift for poetry.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
The process can embitter victims if they feel their experiences are being weighed against each other.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 13, 2012
Or will the attack embitter powerful factions in the government and alienate them further from the notion of an alliance with the United States?
From Slate • May 2, 2011
“I just never happened to get caught in a serious situation that would embitter me to the point where I would continue in that pattern.”
From New York Times • Aug. 21, 2010
Dear child," the mother said, "he sympathized with but did not blame you, and would not have you blame yourself so severely now and embitter your life with unavailing regrets.
From Elsie's Widowhood A Sequel to Elsie's Children by Finley, Martha
Vocabulary lists containing embitter
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: en-, em-
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Novel Study: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Chapters 1–6
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The Devil in the White City
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