Example Sentences

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Predictably, some rock fans have carped that Houston doesn’t belong in the Hall.

From Slate • Feb. 28, 2020

Some critics have carped that it’s retro, safe, rewarded for its comfortable landings within the contours of “quality.”

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2012

Deb enjoyed strawberries for the first time that season, and a glass of wine that even Claud could not have carped at.

From Sisters by Cambridge, Ada

In his Meropis and Ancylio, this dramatist is supposed to have carped at Plato; and his comedy founded on the life of Pythagoras, was probably in a similar vein of satire.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John

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)