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Example sentences for: complaining

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

The letter writer had urged the playing of the "race card," suggesting that the reason the friend's neighbors were complaining so frequently about his behavior was because the friend was black.
Yet the senator is trying to kill Lee's nomination, complaining that he might be an activist at the Justice Department.
The NYT reports that Justice Antonin Scalia's opinion for the Court--issued in the case of a male oil-rig worker complaining about his treatment by male co-workers--says the acid test for harassment is not the sex or motivation of the parties, but whether there is sex-based discrimination in the workplace "so objectively offensive as to alter the conditions of the victim's employment."
The WP quotes Gary Bauer of the Family Research Council complaining, "We just ran one of the least ideological campaigns we've run in years.
The WP runs an op-ed complaining that the U.S. is single-handedly resisting a U.N. attempt to reduce the worldwide use of child soldiers.