Example sentences for: complaint

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

  • It is about "the same irony and the same agony" as Portnoy's Complaint --the excesses of the 1960s--but American Pastoral is "darker, difficult, more mature."

  • Today's Papers' only complaint about Broad's re-look is that it somewhat unfairly chips away at the impression the paper had originally created: The three-page piece waits until the second-to-last column to state that the consensus of the American intelligence agencies is that espionage played a role in China's catch-up even if there is no smoking-gun evidence for this.

  • Krugman's complaint is that the popular press--including Complexity and The New Yorker --is now hailing Brian Arthur as the originator of increasing returns, even though Krugman and many others had worked on the idea long before Arthur did.

  • The campaign's complaint extends to unequal treatment--a nine-part series on Clinton's record, which the official describes as "the softest portrait since they invented black velvet"--and the Times perpetually underestimating the size of Dole crowds.

  • To sidestep this complaint, AMA officials promised never to strike (though Dickey conceded doctors might resist bad employers by "being a little slow in completing some of the paperwork" required by HMOs) and avoided the word "union," instead calling their proposed alliance "an affiliated labor organization."


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