COMPLAINT in a Sentence

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For COMPLAINT, below is one of 114 sentences:
I have not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes.

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 Meanings and Examples of COMPLAINT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
complaint
 n.  expression of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment; criticism
Classic Sentence: (73 in 5 pages)
1  And when, some days afterwards, it was announced that from now on the pigs would get up an hour later in the mornings than the other animals, no complaint was made about that either.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
2  The seizure of the station with a fit of trembling, gradually deepening to a complaint of the heart, announced the train.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
3  The fever was subdued; the fever had been his complaint; of course he would soon be well again.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
4  Mr. Bumble turned, and encountered the face of his interesting consort, who, imperfectly comprehending the few words she had overheard of his complaint, had hazarded the foregoing remark at a venture.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
5  I have not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
6  I've driven my cab this seven years and never a word of complaint.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5. Three Broken Threads
7  No complaint had been lodged with the police, so that Beddoes had mistaken a threat for a deed.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
8  It is a very easy complaint to imitate.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient
9  See here, mister," said he, "I make no complaint of being man-handled in this fashion, but I would have you call things by their right names.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
10  She deeply hated Father Madeleine, but made no complaint.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS
11  You will tell her that she must enter her complaint against carter Pierre Chesnelong.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP
12  Her thought was clearly perceptible, but she uttered no name, she made no complaint, she blamed no one.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF
13  She made no complaint, but she was weary, and Jean Valjean perceived it by the way she dragged more and more on his hand as she walked.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XI—NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN...
14  That which crawls in the social third lower level is no longer complaint stifled by the absolute; it is the protest of matter.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS
15  Let us enter equal complaint against stomachs and minds which do not eat.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
Example Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
16  In the face of these indisputable statements, I withdraw my complaint.
17  Trade officials say that Ecuador has made a complaint to the WTO about the tariffs the European Union imposes on imports of bananas.
18  One of Trump's efforts to support the review, a phone call with Ukraine's leader, has prompted a whistle-blower complaint and a formal impeachment inquiry.
19  The agency was dogged by complaints.
20  The TV station has received a barrage of complaints about the amount of violence in the series.
21  Having to wait hours came high on the list of complaints.
22  She remained in the doorway, listening to his litany of complaints against her client.
23  The sales assistants are trained to deal with customer complaints in a friendly manner.
24  I got no satisfaction from the customer complaints department.
25  The customer services department is reassessing its procedures for handling customer complaints.
26  The tribunal heard complaints against the director.
27  Please follow the proper procedures for dealing with complaints.
28  Let's not get bogged down with individual complaints.
29  The mayor goes direct to the people to listen to their complaints.
30  I'm not here to listen to your complaints.