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Example sentences for: carp

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As a dig at the left, they compare Jacoby's reportage favorably with Nicholas Lemann's in his liberal classic, The Promised Land . Meanwhile, liberals carp that her tone mirrors the anger of the black radicals she depicts.
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.
The strategy has worked, and may have been necessary, and of course it's easy to carp from the outside.
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.
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).