6 sentences with 'bitter'
Example sentences and phrases with the word bitter and other words derived from it.
• « Which apostle was a bitter enemy of the followers of Jesus before his conversion on the road to Damascus? »
• « In the Great Financial Depression of the 1930s to 1939, his dealings with the workers deteriorated into a bitter and sometimes bloody war. »
• « Phytotherapists use vegetables according to their properties. Yin vegetables are cold, bitter and salty. The yang ones are hot, spicy and sugary. »
• « However, they also clashed with each other, and the Ptolemies and Seleucids became particularly bitter rivals, frequently fighting over the territories that divided their empires. »
• « One of the main factors contributing to the loyalty of German civilians to the Nazi regime to the bitter end was the simple and pragmatic understanding that if Germany lost it would be at the mercy of the Soviet Union, a country that the German army had set out to destroy utterly. For the Soviets, of course, only fanatical resistance to German aggression could save their nation and their lives. »
• « The state and the economy - if anything, deeply entwined - were rife with corruption and nepotism, and a deep and bitter cynicism became the outlook of most Soviet citizens towards their government and their lot in life. Arguably, this pattern had already emerged under Khrushchev, but it really came of age under Leonid Brezhnev. »