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Complained in sentence

306 examples of Complained in a sentence

Darwin complained, "But why should you be so aggressive?"
A friend of mine complained that this was too big and too pretty to go in the kitchen, so there's a sixth volume that has washable, waterproof paper.
"Research described a woman with Capgras syndrome who complained about her poorly endowed and sexually inadequate lover."
And when I complained to my grandmother, a World War II veteran who worked in film for 50 years and who supported me from the age of 13, that I was terrified that if I turned down a plum assignment at ABC for a fellowship overseas, I would never ever, ever find another job, she said, "Kiddo, I'm going to tell you two things.
Nobody mentioned it to me, nobody complained.
By the end of the show, we had people queuing for four or five hours to get into the show, but no one really complained.
She was always happy, and even when she began to talk again, albeit difficult to understand, she never complained, not once.
Most importantly, the American embassy complained, so Parliament was swiftly reconvened, and the law was reversed, it was repealed.
And then somebody complained.
Herschel helped by making tidal observations off the coast of South Africa, and, as he complained to Whewell, he was knocked off the docks during a violent high tide for his trouble.
I even went to the Miss Deaf America contest in Nashville, Tennessee, where people complained about that slurry Southern signing.
But my daughter never complained.
When I met Amanda for the first time, she could already stand up and walk a little bit even though she was paralyzed from the waist down, but she complained to me that her suit was uncomfortable.
Well, I knew that my mother was someone who never complained about anything.
I couldn't stop thinking about how much he was suffering, even though he never complained, not once.
I complained to the police.
Artists who worked with lead complained of palseys, melancholy, coughing, enlarged retinas, and even blindness.
And you know, my parents never complained.
One scholar even complained that her constant requests for more Aristotle commentaries were wearing out his eyes.
It always comes back, as Richard Dawkins complained all that long time ago, it always comes back to genes.
Now back among the dead, Sisyphus approached Persephone, queen of the Underworld, and complained that his wife had disrespected him by not giving him a proper burial.
More than 20 women complained about sexual harassment.
And we'd go on these early Sunday mornings and keep going until we ran out of that paint or until someone complained.
But I never complained.
In fact, so woeful was our telephone service that a Member of Parliament stood up in 1984 and complained about this.
As always, I would return to Bangalore, and often to animated discussions at friend's homes, where we would discuss various issues while they complained bitterly about the new pub timings, where a drink often cost more than what they'd paid their 14-year-old maid.
And then, now some people complained that the showerheads looked ugly or didn't suit their bathrooms.
He has complained a lot about people copying him, but in one interview I read, he said it has really forced him to up his game.
You can see that corporations were illegal at the founding of America, and even Thomas Jefferson complained that they were already bidding defiance to the laws of our country.
After a while, his advisers complained.
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