Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Griped Cards Manager Whitey Herzog: "The whole thing is unjust, a joke."

From Time Magazine Archive

Griped an Ickes aide: "That bunch of OPA professors cannot understand anything not in a textbook."

From Time Magazine Archive

Griped Ecuador's Foreign Minister Jos� Trujillo, worried about his bills after a revolution at home: "It costs $64 a day to live; it costs extra to laugh."

From Time Magazine Archive

Griped one adman: "The host of mysticism built up around television has top management scared stiff."

From Time Magazine Archive

Then Grettir sang this stave— "Ill luck-to me That I should be On sea-roof-firth Borne unto earth; Ill luck enow To lie alow, This head of mine Griped fast by swine."

From The Story of Grettir the Strong by Morris, William