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Example sentences for: gripe

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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.)
And now please allow me to gripe for a few minutes.
Others gripe that Dyson recycles her previously published magazine articles, writes turgid prose, and puts too much faith in the free market.
2. Their comments also show a willful or inadvertent misunderstanding of my first gripe.
The owners gripe that players are destroying it from within by demanding too much money.