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Example sentences for: carping

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I do not deny the fact that it does not appear as one word, but if it is going to appear that way in anything I have written it will be after I am dead (and if this carping keeps up, there will soon be a contract out on me).
Republican presidential hopefuls and their myrmidons are carping about the George W. Bush catch phrase.
In the New York Times last week, columnist Thomas Friedman whacked the China bashers for their belligerent carping over the Cox report: "Where exactly do you guys think you are going with this?
Some carping, however: Costumes by Kawakubo are said to make dancers look like they have "incipient elephant-man disease" and to obscure their movements (Joan Acocella, the Wall Street Journal ). (B.A.M.
That, however, is not the purpose of the book, so it might seem carping of me to bring it up.