Example sentences for: complacent

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

  • But they also grabbed market share from big complacent dailies and awakened the sleepy local news trade.

  • and squirrel, complacent carp.

  • The statistics might seem cold, but it's impossib le to remain complacent after meeting someone like Katherine -- or a family who has been left homeless by an illegal eviction, a senior who lost his home to foreclosure from a crooked loan transaction, or a domestic violence victim unable to navigate the courts to get a restraining order.

  • The album is selling tepidly; the show's been picketed by victims'-rights groups and is under threat of more pickets by Puerto Ricans opposed to racial stereotyping; the opening's been postponed to the end of the month; and, depending on which rumor you believe, the director's either so complacent that he only bothers dropping by once a week or so dozy that he hasn't noticed he's been more or less replaced by Mike ( The Graduate ) Nichols, Nick ( Miss Saigon ) Hytner or, most recently, Jerry ( Guys and Dolls ) Zaks.

  • TV critics, at least the political-minded ones, opine gravely that Roseanne 's cancellation proves that a complacent America has lost its appetite for "real-life," "blue-collar" characters, that all TV viewers want now are 3 rd Rock From the Sun aliens and Seinfeld yuppies.


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