1.   This may not have been very constructive, but, except towards the newspaper proprietors, it did not sound particularly bitter.

2.   Spike sounded terribly bitter in his description of the Hunters, as if he had a personal stake in their destruction.

3.   Did that sound bitter?

4.   Dole, expecting defeat, sounded bitter.

5.   Dole, anticipating defeat, sounded bitter.

6.   Haywood, in a telephone interview from his home in Detroit on Friday, sounded somewhat bitter.

7.   He still sounds bitter about what he calls persecution by the state of Massachusetts for practicing engineering without a license.

8.   I know I sound bitter.

9.   If I sound bitter, that is because I am.

10.   I know I sound bitter, but those are the conditions.