COMPLICATION in a Sentence

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When facts, the premonitory symptoms of latent social malady, move heavily, the slightest complication stops and entangles them.

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 Meanings and Examples of COMPLICATION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
complication
 n.  complexity; intricacy; any disease or disorder that occurs during the course of another disease
Classic Sentence: (84 in 6 pages)
1  To keep the peace, was an increase of complication.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
2  When facts, the premonitory symptoms of latent social malady, move heavily, the slightest complication stops and entangles them.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS
3  Natural and commonplace as this matter of marrying is, the banns to publish, the papers to be drawn up, the mayoralty, and the church produce some complication.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833
4  After the Armistice he tried frantically to get home but some complication or misunderstanding sent him to Oxford instead.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
5  He thought not of his wife, but of a complication that had arisen in his official life, which at the time constituted the chief interest of it.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 14
6  Her first movement was one of annoyance: this unforeseen act of Selden's added another complication to life.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
7  He was neither a peasant tailor, a potential artist, a social complication, nor a peril.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
8  He and Mr. Elsing are under arrest for complicity in a Klan raid at Shantytown tonight.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
9  On the same day it was given out that fresh documents had been discovered which revealed further details about Snowball's complicity with Jones.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
10  There had been no open complicity between mother and daughter, no open understanding but, though people in the house began to talk of the affair, still Mrs. Mooney did not intervene.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
11  He had, or thought that he had, a connivance, one might almost say a complicity, of events in his favor, which was equivalent to the invulnerability of antiquity.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LAC...
12  been arrested and tortured for his alleged complicity in the.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX — THAT ONE SHOULD AVOID BEING DESPISED AND HA...
13  Gradually the plans grew into a complicated mass of cranks and cog-wheels, covering more than half the floor, which the other animals found completely unintelligible but very impressive.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
14  Meanwhile, through the agency of Whymper, Napoleon was engaged in complicated negotiations with Frederick and Pilkington.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
15  By this difficult and complicated entrance, the good King Richard, followed by his faithful Ivanhoe, was ushered into the round apartment which occupies the whole of the third story from the ground.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
Example Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
16  His love life was complicated, and involved intense relationships.
17  Working out the quantities of the ingredients involved some complicated maths.
18  Our lawyer guided us through the more complicated questions on the form.
19  A complicated string of chemical reactions leads to the end product.
20  A flower has quite a complicated structure.
21  The old system was fairly complicated whereas the new system is really very simple.
22  The company is double-teaming the more complicated jobs with both a group manager and a scientist.
23  Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
24  Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
25  Legally this is a hugely complicated case and it will take months for the judge to reach the verdict.
26  Miss Havisham kept her lawyers busy drawing up another codicil to add to her already complicated will.
27  This scarf is really simple and easy - but the wavy ribs cause the edges of the scarf to curve in and out, making it look more complicated than it is.
28  Two dimensional arrays are a little more complicated to use than previous ones.
29  To complicate matters further , differences exist as regards legal systems, trade customs and language.
30  Any decision taken by them now, however well meant, could complicate the peace process.