Example Sentences

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One blowout win into the season, Alabama coach Nick Saban was griping about the hype surrounding a team that had “basically played one half of one game.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2021

Around this time last year, when Kanye West was griping about the Grammys, he took to Twitter and asked, incredulously, “Has anyone at the Grammys ever heard March Madness???”

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2017

Some 455 drama and comedies were available for you to view on your way home, at your kid’s ballgame, while your spouse was griping about that co-worker who drives her crazy.

From Salon • Dec. 22, 2016

I was griping about various aspects of being alive that I’d come to find agitating.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 26, 2015

I was griping so loudly, Bobby Gene started patting the air to quiet me down.

From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon