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How to use grudging in a sentence

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After 83 minutes they had finally given an inch, grudging it to Ireland with all their hearts.
Zellweger remains to provide a lightness of tone, particularly in her grudging reacceptance of her father.
When money ran out, they were the only ones working on their land not grudging their son's indulgence in the newfound joys of matrimony.
Often, only the pressure of the spending timetable in the plan forced grudging assent out of some of the voting members.
The subject was of course CBS's grudging acknowledgement that the 60 Minutes documents might possibly be inauthentic.
I think after the anger comes some sort of grudging acceptance, but it's not going to be a very calming acceptance.
It is hard not to have a grudging admiration for the ingenuity behind these schemes.
In a grudging manner she also apologised to me, complaining that she was tired.
In other words, there was not yet in existence the Federal Government that very grudging granted enumerated power to the several states.
I was a career thief and I suppose there is grudging respect on both sides.
A line or two of grudging praise is all he gets when a eulogy might be in order.
But the horror vacui in Brown's paintings is barely counterbalanced by her grudging inclination to create space within them.
There was a general, reluctant, grudging assent to do this, but they were all complying when suddenly a voice broke in.
But I do think there's been a willingness, or even a grudging willingness, to accept this as a good first step.
I have a grudging awareness that I may spend my whole life accepting this fear.
He demurs, is outflanked and outvoted and finally gives grudging agreement to the match.
As I watched, it wasn't a grudging respect for the perfectly tailored and coiffed tribune of the masses that filled me, but a wave of nausea.
The newspaper offered only a grudging apology for its reprehensible victimization of Lee and did not discipline any of the reporters involved.
The play puts flesh on the bones of these divergent characters, as differences in social status gradually yielded to grudging admiration.
As a political liberal who is also a devout Baptist, I have grudging admiration for my conservative coreligionists.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Also there was a grudging note of admiration in his voice when he next spoke.
He felt that his membership had been conferred in a rather grudging spirit.
Ask her to bear corn or pasture flocks, and she will be miserly and grudging.
And even involuntary kindness, grudging kindness, doesn't bestow upon the donor the right to direct the affairs of the donee.
But as concerning the dead, I give you leave to burn them, for when men are once dead there should be no grudging them the rites of fire.
And if Nature had been grudging with him, his father was not more kind.
I reared you to the best of my powers, grudging neither pains nor expense.
Then you're no grudging us the loss of six lambs, Mr. Clark.
I'd given one man and thought it too much, while he gave four without grudging them.
I don't mind acknowledging to you that I've got rather a grudging disposition, and want to keep off all intruders.
How I was, in a grudging way I have no words for, envious of her grief.
Yes, I can work as hard as he can, and with as little grudging.
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