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Example sentences for: carping

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The post- Pulp Fiction infatuation with John Travolta ends, with critics carping that he plays every character as a charming lout.
As soon as Chairman Henry Hyde, R-Ill., bangs the gavel at 10:10 a.m., committee Democrats start carping that they are being unfairly silenced, that they and Clinton's lawyers have not been given enough time to question Starr.
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).
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?
As long as I'm carping, even the movie's first third has problems.