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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When Mary would gripe, she said, her dad would laugh or “just keep working.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
The biggest gripe from VAR detractors is that forensic dissections of game footage take the action out of their high-speed context.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 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
The union's main gripe is that total government spending on NHS dentistry in England has been falling over the past decade, once inflation is taken into account.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026
I couldn’t really gripe to Ali too much.
From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore
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Most of the gripes against the concert-promoting giant could be resolved with a solution that has nothing to with antitrust.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 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
If he gripes about the way she handled Thanksgiving, then he has to prove he can do a better job.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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Some traders had griped that such markets were a sucker’s game because the shows are usually recorded before a studio audience several hours before airtime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
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
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
The bald man griped about his pain while others tried to organize the space and luggage.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
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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
Sweeney has been the subject of online griping since her American Eagle campaign debuted.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2025
I am not griping about publicity for myself.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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