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

"You can't go complaining that houses are $1m because they aren't. They're $500,000 or $600,000 but the young folks don't want to live 35km from Melbourne," he says.

From BBC • May 12, 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

Pita seemed to be in too much pain to talk, because she wasn’t complaining anymore.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall