Sentence examples for slight grudge from inspiring English sources

I should admit at the outset that I have been harboring a slight grudge against these kinds of home treatments for several years.

Sometimes we say this with a slight grudge, as if the idea of having to cede that much is spiritually costly.

I'll continue to watch New Girl but I may hold a slight grudge for a few days, but don't worry, I won't resort to violence.

He has shown himself repeatedly on Twitter, in his phone call to Taiwan that overturned decades of diplomacy, in his clear ability to hold a grudge about the smallest of slights, that he is incapable of controlling his feelings.

Behind each stand-off lies years of accrued grudges and slights.Right now the air is filled with talk of divisions between long-standing EU members and more recent arrivals from the ex-communist block.

Shibil, an indolent townsman whom Mr. Shadid befriends, is "loquacious even if miserable" and in "uncertain health" probably because he "tosses sleeplessly most nights, enraging and then reenraging himself as he sorts through his pile of grudges, imagined slights and never-ending quarrels".

The secret scars of childhood, the long-held grudges from slights both real and imagined and the betrayals of love are the central themes in this large-canvas family saga, which unfolds through the perspectives of the members of three generations of the Maxwell clan during a summer vacation at their cottage in New York State.

Picking fights over petty grudges and slights.

And John McCain could channel his spooky fury into a fragrance for the grudge holder who has never suffered a slight that he didn't avenge.

Over the last few years, the list of grudges grew, each emanating from a perceived slight.

Mr Scott, who had to put up with every kind of slight from Mr Brown's Treasury for six years, bears a grudge.