carping

Example Sentences

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“Worrying about 20 people on his left carping on Twitter is not how he should be living,” Rosen said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

Believe me, I’m completely aware that I sound like a Scrooge, a buzzkill harping and carping about innocuous movies that are meant to be little more than background noise while people scroll on their phones.

From Salon • Dec. 21, 2024

After enough of his students’ carping, however, Hayes decided to put the snakes to the test.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 3, 2024

“A lot of discourse around it. A lot of carping back and forth. A lot of anger. A lot of commentary,” Stewart said.

From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2024

When I persisted in my carping to the economists, they generally backed down a bit, conceding that while wages at the bottom are going up, they’re not going up very briskly.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich