Example sentences for: gripe

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

  • So we seldom gripe about cardiologists, because they share our ethic of personal responsibility and keep our long hours.

  • The second computer animated ant film of the season is said to be head and thorax above its predecessor, Antz . Aimed at a slightly younger audience, the film bristles with buggy life and packs in the "gee-whiz moments" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). The critics' one gripe is that there's almost too much happening at once on-screen: It's "so dense with characters and illustrative detail that it nearly chokes on its own banquet" (Richard Corliss, Time ). (Visit the Web site of Pixar, this film's animation studio.)

  • Clinton's critics won't be able to gripe that he escaped scot-free: He will be paying the price, quietly, every week.

  • Congress would gripe a bit more, and by that time the troops would be on their way home.

  • Others gripe that Dyson recycles her previously published magazine articles, writes turgid prose, and puts too much faith in the free market.


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