Sentence examples for as a bitter from inspiring English sources

Work served as a bitter, inadequate refuge.

"The news came as a bitter blow," Lewis recalls.

Nick Clegg described it as a "bitter blow".

Dahl's own childhood had a lovely, rather magical side, as well as a bitter, Draconian one.

Mills was unfairly painted as a bitter divorcee exploiting her disability for public sympathy.

Other senior figures, however, have lent him support as a bitter war of words raged.

Although defeat was by no means unexpected, it still came as a bitter blow.

His ferocious anti-Sarkozysme backfired, casting him as a bitter, obsessive figure.

Red Jacket constantly sought to portray himself as a bitter enemy of the whites.

TWH Crosland toiled in Grub Street as a bitter and disappointed man.

Liam Blizard has no allegiance issues: "As a bitter blade, no such confusion here.