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How to use sour grapes in a sentence

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Okay, sure, maybe there's a hint of sour grapes here, but really, please, just stop it already.
The views of the objectors are obviously tinged with disappointment but should not be dismissed as sour grapes.
The reality is she's articulate and she's composed, and apparently some people tonight have sour grapes.
But for me to go on about it would be to criticise the referee, and it might sound like sour grapes.
The ones who are honest have had to watch the cheats claiming medals and any complaint is made to look like sour grapes.
As you have always known, Canadians are sophisticated enough politically to see through the sour grapes of criticism.
However those behind the enterprise insist that it's just a case of sour grapes.
Is it just sour grapes because I'm poor as a church mouse and live half a planet away from all the action?
This is not just sour grapes from a woman with no interest in footy.
I have on occasion taken to sporting a similar moustache and – Boy! – do people make sour grapes faces at me.
Revolutionary works, when by chance they come t o hand, seem but the sour grapes of a few eccentrics.
Can anyone really believe that review is anything but sour grapes?
I have on occasion taken to sporting a similar mustache and Boy! do people make sour grapes faces at me.
As for his competitors' criticism, Charlton shoots it down as sour grapes.
One might say that maybe it was just sour grapes, but in October of 2002 this man was awarded a compensation package for wrongful dismissal.
There were no regrets, no complaints, not even a whiff of sour grapes.
This might be dismissed as so much sour grapes, but for our region's weak recent history when it comes to entrepreneurialism.
In Club France, at  Old Billingsgate on Lower Thames Street, any sour grapes over Paris losing out to London in the last stage of the bid have been washed away on a tide of bon homie.
Mr President, moving on from the sour grapes you have just heard, I would like to say this measure represents a win-win situation for the EU because we are actually doing something practical for our consumers.
Good grapes was the yield I expected, why did it yield only sour grapes?
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Examples from Classical Literature
Which wise dictum might or might not be based on the fox's opinion as to sour grapes.
Moreover I had eaten by stealth a vast quantity of sour grapes.
The father's sour grapes had not set these children's teeth on edge.
It would sound, wouldnt it, rather like sour grapes to say it?
Is disagreeing with Prince William's decision to to take the helicopter job sour grapes J Watts I don't think so.
I ain't much to spend, and mebbe that sounds some like sour grapes.
Am I missing something or could it just be sour grapes on this occasion?
What mean ye by saying that the poor ye have always with you, or that the fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?
It sounds to me like a wee bit of sour grapes on Billy's part.
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