Rankles is an English word. Below you'll find 9 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Rankles meaning
third-person singular simple present indicative of rankle
Using Rankles
- The main meaning on this page is: third-person singular simple present indicative of rankle
- In the example corpus, rankles often appears in combinations such as: still rankles, rankles with.
Context around Rankles
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 1 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Rankles
- In this selection, "rankles" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 20.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, film stand out and add context to how "rankles" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1973 still rankles with me and areas also rankles. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "rankles" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with rankles
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Even the color palette of his film rankles. (8 words)
His death in police custody a month later still rankles with BJP leaders. (13 words)
The All-Ireland quarter-final defeat to Derry later in the summer still rankles with Keane. (16 words)
The fact that film stars lecture us as if they were experts on climate or poverty, race or sex, even though they have no discernible special knowledge or expertise in those areas, also rankles. (34 words)
And if there is one thing that rankles a grammarian more than any other linguistic slight, it's a sneaky Americanism jellying up the jam of our good and proper Australian English. (32 words)
Yet the thought of all the effort and money expended just to keep him locked up and out of the public consciousness still rankles. (24 words)
One mistake made against my team in 1973 still rankles with me even now – 45 years later! (17 words)
Example sentences (9)
And if there is one thing that rankles a grammarian more than any other linguistic slight, it's a sneaky Americanism jellying up the jam of our good and proper Australian English.
Even the color palette of his film rankles.
It still rankles with Davies, now 38 and playing for League One Cheltenham Town, to this very day.
Yet the thought of all the effort and money expended just to keep him locked up and out of the public consciousness still rankles.
The fact that film stars lecture us as if they were experts on climate or poverty, race or sex, even though they have no discernible special knowledge or expertise in those areas, also rankles.
His death in police custody a month later still rankles with BJP leaders.
The All-Ireland quarter-final defeat to Derry later in the summer still rankles with Keane.
One mistake made against my team in 1973 still rankles with me even now – 45 years later!
What rankles most is that she was not the main target of the acid attack, yet became its worst victim.
Common combinations with rankles
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: