embitter

Example Sentences

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The plan, if it passes in its original form, could lead to legal measures that would embitter the everyday lives of the migrants and, critics say, make their stay in Israel intolerable.

From Seattle Times • May 4, 2023

As a narrator, Won maintains a weary earnestness, acknowledging the bitterness of his situation without allowing it to embitter him.

From Washington Post • Jan. 11, 2023

The unhappy decline that constituted the second act was, in Pastor’s view, an uncannily precise preview of the economic, social and political discontents that now embitter our national politics.

From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2018

Hardship did not embitter Lucy Larcom, and she never lost her love of books and gift for poetry.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

The author regards children as sacred, and would not for the world cast anything into the fountain of a young heart that might embitter and pollute its waters.

From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various