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Example sentences for: carping

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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.
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.
Claiborne persevered, however, learned French, changed the laws, and brought his carping constituents into the American fold as citizens of the new State of Louisiana, even though it was very much unlike any other US state.
The post- Pulp Fiction infatuation with John Travolta ends, with critics carping that he plays every character as a charming lout.
Republican presidential hopefuls and their myrmidons are carping about the George W. Bush catch phrase.