Example Sentences

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Senior executives carped about Chapek to Disney board members.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2026

“You’re no fun anymore,” carped a college buddy I’d once partied with.

From Salon • Dec. 30, 2023

They said she was a Brooklyn hipster with artificially inflated lips and carped her father was a millionaire who - allegedly - bankrolled her career.

From BBC • Jul. 10, 2023

In The New Yorker, the influential and acerbic critic Pauline Kael carped that George Lucas was “in the toy business.”

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2022

Perhaps utilitarians would have carped at the feminine delicacy of the hands, and certainly the fingers were slender and marvelously white.

From Beulah by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)