Example Sentences

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Actors Cary Grant and Frank Sinatra griped about the smog.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Some traders had griped that such markets were a sucker’s game because the shows are usually recorded before a studio audience several hours before airtime.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026

Neither of these merit calls to the Federal Communications Commission, but past complainants griped about less.

From Salon • Feb. 9, 2026

“The system here is broken on many levels,” she griped in a statement.

From Slate • Sep. 4, 2025

They married and returned to his island home where there wasn't anything to do—Doña Charito griped in her gutturals—but get one's work done.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez