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
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
"I was told I'd have the exclusive," carped Dua Lipa.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2022
How those men had carped, and criticised her, chattered of the duties of her soul!
From Margret Howth, a Story of To-day by Davis, Rebecca Harding
