sour grapes
Example Sentences
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To atone, Ana-Maria says, they must eat sour grapes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025
Was it sour grapes, then, when Jamie Dimon called out private-credit firms over the recent spate of bankruptcies hitting banks?
From Barron's • Oct. 24, 2025
On the other hand, it sounds like sour grapes when he says that he never had the opportunity to show that he was able to play.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2025
She described her childhood within the island's forested expanse, making dirt-pies and chasing garter snakes next to "fragrant purple lilacs, sour grapes in vines strangling the trunks of tart green apple trees".
From BBC • Jan. 30, 2023
“Ha! Can you imagine the traffic on the interstate trying to get there?” says my mom, in a sour grapes kind of way.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
