complaining

Example Sentences

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Corvette, a promising and hard-working designer herself who aspires to Christie’s brilliance, is tormented by nightmares of rich people complaining about the generation who “can’t expect everything to be handed to them.”

From Salon • May 22, 2026

Another said her daughter hears her friends complaining about data centers.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

Her neighbour, 71-year-old Kusum Mishra, who arrived 50 years ago, also dismissed the "petty compensation" offered, complaining that "they are uprooting us and destroying our lives."

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

This season, Reddit has been filled with posts asking where to find a particular game and complaining about how confusing it all has become.

From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026

It was because every single, solitary day that I’d been walking this good green earth, I’d been complaining about the name Cornelia.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan