gripe

When Mary would gripe, she said, her dad would laugh or “just keep working.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Gains are gains, of course, so investors beating the S&P 500 have nothing to gripe about.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

That was Ainsley’s chief gripe about him: “He said he cared. He said he listened. He didn’t mean any of it. He used me.”

From Salon ● May 22, 2026

Yet back-to-back red cards against Burnley and Arsenal followed, Chelsea continue to be outrun in the Premier League, and lapses in concentration have become a weekly gripe from the 41-year-old.

From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026

If you had a gripe, you settled it outside, where you didn’t risk interrupting the hallowed practice of separating pigeons from their money.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

Though his wife and I had been in the same women’s book group, I’d known Eric only through the wry gripes we’d all made about our husbands.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

It’s a “three-ring circus”: the merits docket, the shadow docket, and the justices’ increasingly public intramural snipings and gripes.

From Slate ● May 30, 2026

This was an increase from just over 70,000 in 2020-21, with one of the main gripes about poor response times.

From BBC ● May 14, 2026

When he returns to his constituency, Röttgen, the veteran German conservative lawmaker, says he hears the usual gripes about the cost of living and energy prices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026

The coaches were aware of the gripes, but the bottom line was that Boobie had the talent and they did not.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

In perhaps the weirdest admission, Katie Miller griped that her husband wears shoes in the house against her will, which she dislikes because “the kids eat off the floor.”

From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2026

“The system here is broken on many levels,” she griped in a statement.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2025

Teams have also griped about dried-out fields and practice sessions that had to be cut short due to the heat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2025

“In America, art is always paid for by somebody and griped about by somebody else,” Klaus opines late in the novel to Di.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025

"Her face is pretty, but I don't like her legs," I once griped to Tsalig—as if he had asked for my opinion.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson

You hear a lot griping about high ticket prices, but artists and promoters set those prices as a reflection of what their costs are.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

The 56-year-old native of upstate New York left his first term on the board prematurely in 2011, griping over policy differences.

From Barron's ● May 12, 2026

There was much intra-Senate grousing and griping and bickering in the days preceding Friday morning’s vote.

From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2026

Vassiliadis, who became a close friend, described Ralenkotter as a traditionalist: good family man, devout Catholic, not a gambler himself; even in their last conversation, Vassiliadis noted, Ralenkotter was still griping about baseball’s designated-hitter rule.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

Normally, Druzmilla would have greeted Skardebek lovingly, maybe griping that someone had just picked a big scab and thrown it out the window, but she was clearly too nervous to think of a pleasant insult.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin