Object

• year: Readers may detect how the injustice still rankles 30 years on, but I feel much better now it's out in the open.

• memory: They were liberated by Antony, but the memory rankled.

Preposition: with

• pensioner: That still rankles with pensioners because it meant that the basic state pension did not rise in line with the growth of the economy.

Adjective complement

• more: Surely, this must rankle more than any other defeat.

Modifying Another Word

• also: EPA's decision also rankled those representing U.S. electric utilities.

• deeply: The little gestures of contempt and humiliation rankled as deeply as the confinement.

• tho: I can't help but get rankled tho about this Triple Crown business as the filly is rarely mentioned.

• really: Christ, the smug yet hysterical ' pull yourself together ' tone really rankles.

• always: Defeat always rankles, but there was also a sense of relief in that the pressure of maintaining a run had been lifted.