Example sentences for: complain

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

  • If Gore were to complain that Bradley's plan required a tax increase, liberals would shrug and vote for Bradley.

  • Far be it from Slate , of course, to complain about a ludicrous excess of publicity attending the arrival of a new magazine.

  • Publishing houses complain that big advances hurt profits.

  • For example, I've heard many agents complain of having to revoke the parole of guys who failed a drug test but who were not, in the agent's best judgment, doing anything more than getting high.

  • This exposé of American submarine espionage is "an evocative and important look at the cold war," says Timothy Naftali in the New York Times Book Review . Told with the color and pacing of a spy novel, the book is full of firsthand accounts from the men who served on the underwater spying missions, though critics complain that the writers--a former New York Times reporter and a current one--are insufficiently skeptical about inflated claims to heroism.


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