How to Use embitter in a Sentence

embitter

verb

• The soldier was embittered by the war.
• Alito came out a winner, but still embittered.
  — Peter S. Canellos, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2026
• While work can form a core part of a person’s identity, worklessness can depress and embitter.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2020
• Let’s hope feelings of anger and resentment don’t embitter his afternoon cups of tea with Sandy.
  — Spencer Morgan, New York Times, 8 June 2019
• Ruth’s grief is further embittered by empty pieties surrounding motherhood and the ills of modern life at large.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2017
• Here, the situation has changed, leaving many of the gods either hardened or embittered by the conflict.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025
• And when Frankenstein died, his creature continued to roam the earth, enraged and embittered, poised to wreak more damage.
  — Charlotte Gordon, Slate Magazine, 23 Jan. 2017
• Indeed, for some unionists, Madrid’s all-out attempt to stop the referendum has embittered them.
  — Jeannette Neumann, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2017
• Sheeran assumes the pose of someone at the top, lonely and embittered, a style that is put across much more convincingly by the hip-hop acts on the album.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 22 July 2019
• All of this, plus the theft that occurred in those two days, embittered business owners, most of whom never returned to the West Side.
  — Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2018
• Sports fans are often embittered by years of disappointment after starting to support a team just as its potential peaks.
  — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2017
• Smith was embittered by the ignominious loss of his home state in 1928 and the underwhelming margin in his own city.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2018
• Detectives’ phones rarely ring with tips, and officers grow embittered with witnesses who will not cooperate.
  — Benjamin Mueller and Al Baker, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2016
• Both outcomes cost the company a potentially excellent worker—and can leave the worker embittered.
  — Peter Cappelli, WSJ, 17 Feb. 2017
• The women — all of whom had been fervent Patrick supporters — came away from their tenure embittered by the experience and stunned the governor did not stand up for equal pay.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Dec. 2019
• Both the occupation and the brutality during the war have embittered ties between Algiers and Paris.
  — Elaine Ganley, Fox News, 13 Sep. 2018
• In other words, impeachment embittered both sides —and also created a lot of winners, politically, many of them from Texas.
  — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 6 Feb. 2020
• His father, embittered by the season 2 trial, turned the Padillas in for retribution for his bruised reputation.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 24 Aug. 2019
• Being close to death, rather than embittering them against their enemies or inflating them with a sense of superiority, lent the Moltkes a greater moral clarity.
  — Mary Spencer, National Review, 29 Feb. 2020
• The specter of Dickens’s ranting spinster — spurned and embittered in her crumbling wedding dress, plotting her elaborate revenge — casts a long shadow over every woman who dares to get mad.
  — Leslie Jamison, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2018
• Yet many Muslims, embittered by conflict and poverty, remain hostile to the Philippine authorities.
  — The Economist, 17 Oct. 2017
• The Holocaust was a traumatizing experience for many Jews and many people were embittered, lost their faith and didn't want to be Jewish anymore.
  — Patricia Dillon, Houston Chronicle, 23 Feb. 2018
• An angry and embittered Trump without any sort of protective cocoon around him is capable of almost anything -- up to and including getting rid of the man who has been a burr in his saddle for the past year.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 9 Apr. 2018
• People were already angry with Beijing for failing to deliver on its promise of a democratic vote; the prosecutions further embittered many.
  — Suzanne Sataline, Quartz, 30 Nov. 2019
• But black Americans are also knowingly weary and embittered by the absence of such enlightened thinking when those in our own families were similarly wounded.
  — Eugene Scott, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2017
• Many of the impulsive political intrusions by technology companies have done more to embitter American debate than to clean it up.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2021
• Searching for answers, Clinton steadfastly insists that the woman who has spent decades persevering in a harsh spotlight won't be embittered by a final humiliating blow.
  — Kevin Liptak, CNN, 6 Sep. 2017
• After a storybook senior season, Butcher has no cause to be embittered about the way this worked out and the Avs don’t deserve to be ripped for not trying to coax him out of the DU program a year ago.
  — Terry Frei, The Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2017
• His writing teacher, Larry (Billy Crystal), suffers from writer’s block and is embittered by his ex-wife’s successful literary career.
  — Sara Aridi, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2018
• Patrick was stung when the news about his brother-in-law was first exposed by the Boston Herald during his campaign in 2006, and embittered by the personal revelations.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Nov. 2019