Example Sentences

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Hardcore fans have groused about the system, saying it has made visiting the park on high-demand days, especially on weekends, very difficult.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2022

But council members also pledged last year to back at least 222 new units of homeless housing in each of their districts — and some have groused about uneven progress toward that goal.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2019

Its story, based on the real-life palace intrigue involving Queen Anne and her female consorts, gleefully skewers the stuffy conventions of its genre, provoking some who have groused about its many anachronisms.

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2019

Many players appreciated the effort at more transparency; pros long have groused about being assessed time-code violations seemingly arbitrarily.

From Washington Post • Aug. 6, 2018

Wouldn’t it have been just as reasonable—and by just as reasonable, I mean just as dumb—for the Orioles to have groused about the Twins violating “unwritten rules”?

From Slate • Apr. 2, 2018