griping

Example Sentences

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There was much intra-Senate grousing and griping and bickering in the days preceding Friday morning’s vote.

From Slate • Mar. 28, 2026

All told, three games featuring six teams that were all in playoff contention were decided on the final snap—with two coaches left griping about the NFL rulebook.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

Sweeney has been the subject of online griping since her American Eagle campaign debuted.

From Salon • Aug. 3, 2025

That more or less sums up this movie, a horror flick that’s serviceable enough to make you occasionally giggle or flinch, yet is also so aggressively unambitious that it scarcely seems worth griping about.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2024

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