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How to use rankling in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word rankling? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
At times this approached a rankling self-righteousness, but generally his contemporaries saw him as reserved, gentle, and charitable.
And what is rankling me most is since when have I been the type to believe in the caducity of life?
On the day itself, thousands of soldiers and police were deployed around the city, reassuring some but rankling others.
Many of the miners were suffering from rankling copper sores, caused by the poisonous water.
The allegation that several retailers are demanding boarding passes in order to skim the equivalent of VAT from people travelling outside the EU is clearly rankling shoppers.
Like virtually every other director in the '30s and '40s, Ford was obliged to be a company man, rankling under his boss's gaze.
I stood trembling with agony for the spear was rankling in the wound.
This would have left a rankling wound in the hearts of the people.
Examples from Classical Literature
She could not understand the amount of offence which was rankling in Mary's bosom.
The poison, rankling in her veins, she knew could not be expelled by idle sophisms.
Allow me to leave this room, my dear rankling, and I'll beg your acceptance of this one.
Yet the knowledge imparted to him by the chambermaid was rankling in his mind.
Tuppy's fatheaded words were still rankling in my bosom as I went up to my room.
The venom of Martha's poisoned arrows was rankling in her breast.
Pride, anger, and mortification were rankling in her breast.
At length Asa, in right of his years, and moved by the rankling impulse of the recent quarrel, took on himself the office of interrogator.
But the gibes of Newall and Parfitt were still rankling in his breast.
The skilful performance of my duty was the source of a rankling grudge.
The loss of the horse had been rankling in his heart all day.
An offence remained for ever rankling in his heart and mind.
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