gripe
Frequently Asked Questions
- He always gripes about his old job—he should just move on.
- Quit your griping and just get to work!
- I have a few gripes about the way things were handled, but they’re pretty minor.
Example Sentences
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Much about the grimy parts of Burning Man is left unmentioned, leaving it up to Redditors to gripe about sanitation pile-ups departing Burners leave in nearby towns.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
That was Ainsley’s chief gripe about him: “He said he cared. He said he listened. He didn’t mean any of it. He used me.”
From Salon ● May 22, 2026
Yet back-to-back red cards against Burnley and Arsenal followed, Chelsea continue to be outrun in the Premier League, and lapses in concentration have become a weekly gripe from the 41-year-old.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026
Or for that matter, someone who needs his hand held all the time—a common employer gripe about recent grads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026
She did her work with such grace and resilience, never a gripe.
From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
His campaign strategist at the time has some gripes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
It’s a “three-ring circus”: the merits docket, the shadow docket, and the justices’ increasingly public intramural snipings and gripes.
From Slate ● May 30, 2026
This was an increase from just over 70,000 in 2020-21, with one of the main gripes about poor response times.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
The announcement of Dudamel’s first New York season, while praiseworthy, brought an earful of gripes about his speaking in platitudes from hardcore New Yorkers unimpressed by uplift.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
He lived on the first floor and he usually came up to see X when he had a few rumors or gripes to unload.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
In perhaps the weirdest admission, Katie Miller griped that her husband wears shoes in the house against her will, which she dislikes because “the kids eat off the floor.”
From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2026
Throughout this season, fans have griped about apparent false starts that officials have missed by the Eagles on the play.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
He never griped that he was pitching on short rest, or pitching with a bum arm, or pitching with a terrible offense and an untrustworthy bullpen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025
“The system here is broken on many levels,” she griped in a statement.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2025
Johnson griped, “That military genius, McNamara, has gone dovish on me.”
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
The 56-year-old native of upstate New York left his first term on the board prematurely in 2011, griping over policy differences.
From Barron's ● May 12, 2026
There was much intra-Senate grousing and griping and bickering in the days preceding Friday morning’s vote.
From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2026
Detroit has spent the season griping with referees, tussling with opponents and piling up 66 technicals, by far the highest number in the league.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
Some of the pieces in the book written before this real-life catastrophe, though, suffer from the rote world-weariness of the columnist accustomed to griping to order.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025
Normally, Druzmilla would have greeted Skardebek lovingly, maybe griping that someone had just picked a big scab and thrown it out the window, but she was clearly too nervous to think of a pleasant insult.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
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