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

I lacked sufficient objectivity to produce anything better than 200,000 words’ worth of sour grapes.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2023

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

She sniffed, a clear case of sour grapes.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer