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Example sentences for: complain

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Those in favor call the film "scorchingly funny" (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ) and Stiller's performance "rivetingly caustic" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Those against complain that the film is "a shallow tale told by an idiot" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ) and that Stiller's junkie character is too thoroughly unappealing for the audience to ever root for him.
They complain that things are being done behind their backs , but nothing can be done “in front of their backs.”
Sportswriters perennially complain that Major League Baseball's greedy owners are corrupting the game.
And advertisers, of course, complain that sweep months artificially inflate the amounts they pay for spots.
The purveyors of spirits complain that the decades-old ban doesn't apply to beer and wine, and cite this as the reason why grapes and hops have been gaining market share against the hard stuff.