complain

Example Sentences

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If you don’t start to read a putt until it is your turn, and you do that 18 times, you have lost your license to complain about the pace of others.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

The building bonanza is likely to boost GDP, analysts say, but some caution that it comes with risks, while residents displaced in the name of progress complain of being left behind.

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

We parent as a team who spends holidays together and we will head to Coachella soon to complain about the bus lines amid total exhaustion yet again.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Agriculture sector representatives are due in Brussels for talks with the European Commission on April 13, as many complain the conflict risks plunging an already strained industry into a deeper crisis.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

They were small things that Jinjoo always noticed and despised, but that her mother would never listen to her complain about.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh