Example sentences for: carp

How can you use “carp” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • And before you carp about old wine and new bottles, old dogs and new tricks, take a look at those election returns.

  • You cannot carp, as Eleanor did, about privileges of race and gender without begging the question of your own megaprivileges: land, family, connections, fame, not to mention having a husband who's president.

  • Publishers carp back that they can't turn a profit, no matter what they do.

  • It is, for instance, the right of every American to carp about his boss (I believe that's in the Constitution) and his relatives (the Bible).

  • Most recently, I saw on BBC-TV a most enchanting film about two men who had gone fishing for “monster” carp on a lake at a private estate somewhere.


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