Example sentences for: grievance

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

  • Thirty years may seem like a long time to someone nursing a grievance since the pitched battles of the late '60s, but in the sweep of history--on the heels of 90 years of Jim Crow and 200 of race slavery--it's nothing.

  • Bin Ladin's grievance with the United States may have started in reaction to specific U.S. policies but it quickly became far deeper.

  • What comes through repeatedly is not just grievance but also the pride, vulnerability, and sometimes desperation of people who see their lives and daily predicaments as having been shaped by a cataclysm that occurred more than 130 years ago.

  • "They help people cope, help them seek redress for a grievance," Riggs said.

  • But suppose, M.G., that a group with a legitimate grievance against the United States set off a bomb in a "civilian" area in Glen Oaks.


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