COMPLAIN in a Sentence

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Constantly complaining about his treatment and refusing to cooperate with the hospital staff, he was a cantankerous patient.

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 Meanings and Examples of COMPLAIN
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complain
 v.  make a formal accusation; bring a formal charge
Classic Sentence: (151 in 11 pages)
1  Yet do not suppose, because I complain a little or because I can conceive a consolation for my toils which I may never know, that I am wavering in my resolutions.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 2
2  "I can't complain," answered Wilson unconvincingly.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
3  I do not mean to complain, however; it is undoubtedly a comfortable one, and I hope will in time be better.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
4  I have a notion of firing eighty-two times, if the neighborhood shouldn't complain, and that cannon of mine should prove equal to the pressure.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXII
5  Long-suffering and loving Joe, you never complain.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LII
6  As to all the rest, he was humble and contrite, and I never knew him complain.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LVI
7  But I do not at all complain of having been kept out of this property; and if anybody else should be in the present enjoyment of it, he is heartily welcome to keep it.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN
8  At all times I lounged about the house and neighbourhood quite disregarded, except that they were jealous of my making any friends: thinking, perhaps, that if I did, I might complain to someone.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR
9  I was sufficiently ill at ease, Heaven knows; but it was not in my nature to complain much at that time of my life, so I said I was very well, and hoped he was.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T LIK...
10  I complain that you really are a little unnatural towards your own family; and, as it is of no use complaining to you.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. I AM A NEW BOY IN MORE SENSES THAN ONE
11  I mean to complain to your husband.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. I AM A NEW BOY IN MORE SENSES THAN ONE
12  'It ain't that I complain of my line of business,' said Mr. Omer.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30. A LOSS
13  But I have no other reason to complain of her.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 35. DEPRESSION
14  He's never been heerd fur to complain.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 40. THE WANDERER
15  So it had to be, and I cannot complain of anyone or anything.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 24
Example Sentence: (60 in 5 pages)
16  The law allows tenants three legal options to complain about a possible overcharge in rent.
17  Two decades after the genocide, Rwandans are enjoying longer and wealthier lives, yet extreme poverty persists and activists complain of political suppression.
18  African-Americans have been complaining about police harassment for years.
19  Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
20  Residents are complaining because traffic in the area has increased.
21  He was always complaining about his various aches and pains.
22  Learn to suffer without complaining; that is the best thing I can teach you.
23  Teachers are always complaining about their heavy workloads.
24  Instead of complaining about it, I'm just gonna go in every day and give it my all.
25  Instead of complaining about what's wrong, be grateful for what's right.
26  I know that love shall not be compared, but I still used to complaining what he is lack of.
27  She didn't realize that by complaining she was only playing Peter's game.
28  When a local historical society showed interest in preserving the Cider Barrel, he began to grumble, complaining about the "society."
29  Her constant complaining about the job would adumbrate her intent to leave.
30  Constantly complaining about his treatment and refusing to cooperate with the hospital staff, he was a cantankerous patient.