How To Use Gripe In A Sentence

Destiny's Wild even went so far as to gripe that Neapolitan had stolen their idea of singing the song a Capella, which is hardly a novel concept. IGN TV
Your pharmacist can advise you on simple medicines and/or gripe water that will help prevent colic.
And their chief gripe about the town? Times, Sunday Times
Social media was flooded with jokes and gripes about it. The Sun
Though the Hives open themselves up to style-over-substance gripes, there is real feeling amidst their artifice and formalism.

Whatever it is that day, we make our gripes, put his "progressiveness" in meanie scare quotes, or maybe even go all the way with "so-called progressive. Josh Mull: What's worse: Steele's Afghanistan comments or the reaction?
Only Republicans can sit and gripe, whine, and snivel over the results of the last election, committing themselves to "no progress on anything". DeMint: Obama 'distracted' from protecting the country
His avatar is of the old, cranky black guy who continually gripes about his fellow "darkies" and "negras" acting all like animals and stuff. Obama On The Britney Ad: They're Painting Me As "Risky"
One gripe is skintight clothes disrupt the signal - so avoid Lycra. The Sun
The other main gripe of the research posse is the tendency of IT suppliers to over-egg the pudding.
Of the five local opinions sought on the operations of the Council, traffic and parking gripes predominated.
My one real gripe is that, after just a couple of weeks, you might get bored of the activities. The Sun
Read our biggest gripes on page 4 and tell us yours. Times, Sunday Times
His fans' main gripe is that he is such a slow writer. Times, Sunday Times
Read our biggest gripes on page 4 and tell us yours. Times, Sunday Times
One gripe has been that there is a lack of leadership. Times, Sunday Times
My main gripe is that hardly any of the short-list have been able to infuse their performances with even the slightest hint of emotion.
We, nevertheless, inevitably find things about which to gripe and complain.
My only gripe about this phone is it does not have a loudspeaker function for hands-free calling without using a earpiece.
My only gripe is that one main course and one dessert were unavailable.
This is not a moan or a gripe but something that's been puzzling me of late.
The last gripe is that, yet again, there appears to be a paucity of the machines available, at least in shops, with Compustore sales clerks saying they ‘can't see’ when they'll have them in.
Others had a different gripe with his austere approach to soldiers' lifestyles. Times, Sunday Times
The bipartisan grumbling varied: Some Democrats griped that the Jewish New Year took up otherwise prolific fundraising days in September, and one Republican operative complained that Hurricane Irene slowed down fundraising in August. HUFFPOST HILL - Tricorne Hat-less Grassroots Movement Growing On Wall Street
Poor Admiral Boxer has fallen a victim to its remorseless gripe, and is buried at the head of the harbour, where he worked so hard, early and late, to endeavour to rescue Balaklava from the plague-stricken wretchedness in which he found it a few months before. Journal Kept During The Russian War: From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol
If, in addition to the above symptoms, he pass a large quantity of watery fluid from his bowels, the case becomes one of _watery gripes_, and requires the immediate attention of a doctor. Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children
Because this public global shaming is very effective in making them respond double-quick to your gripe. Scott Goodson: Why Movements Are Like a Good Marriage
We're watching "The Water Under The Water" and I am middle-aged and my husband and I gripe all weekend about animal care, who does what and all the things that have gotten ruined by the animals, whose fault it was... and Marlton, right there in the dark popcorn-less screening room assaults my left earlobe with branding-iron heat. Indiscretions
Because his teammates got their share of shots, no one griped under their breath about the number Iverson took.
At present my biggest gripe is the lack of facilities.
A lot of this footage is recycled from other wildlife films, but that's a minor gripe. Times, Sunday Times
But get over those very minor gripes and you're looking at an essential purchase. The Sun
The gripe is about the pace of the transition to the new system. Times, Sunday Times
My biggest gripe would be certain keys being switched around a little, but they're SOLID. nirvan5a Laptop-Reliability Study Highlights The Most Sturdy Laptop Makers | Lifehacker Australia
I have a gripe about the service here
Your biggest gripe is that there's so little you can do to put things right. Times, Sunday Times
Throughout the trial, Smaltz griped that the defense was infusing race into the trial in what he saw as a plea to the mainly African American jury. Matthew Lynch, Ed.D.: Remembering the $17 Million Dollar Witch Hunt of Mike Espy
Andres was suffering from gripe and sinus problems for a couple weeks.
But it addresses a big gripe. The Sun
Is it permitted to air a few gripes?
He gripes that being a Canadian actor has limited the roles he has been offered.
I still have a gripe with journalists who consistently refuse to refer to documents like those above when constructing their various conspiracy theories.
She gave some medicine to me when my stomach griped.
As best I can deduce from reading Paul's repetitive whinges, his main gripe seems to be the adverse impact of labour market practices like casualisation, downsizing and outsourcing on GenXers like himself.
The major gripe by referees was the fact that the apparatus they were asked to carry was heavy and cumbersome.
Gripes, by means of the aluminous sharp Particles of its Earth; Its Air is also so bad, as has obliged several to remove from its Situation for their The London and Country Brewer
But these are minor gripes and most people won't notice or care about it.
Whenever a few of us label nuts were gathered together, we'd gripe about those plain vanilla labels. Freep.com - RSS
The gripe is about the pace of the transition to the new system. Times, Sunday Times
Revenue from supporters is proportionately far less important than it was even 10 years ago, so the Premiership clubs care a little less about your petty gripes and whinges.
My one real gripe is that, after just a couple of weeks, you might get bored of the activities. The Sun
This is a minor gripe, though. Times, Sunday Times
But what about the gripe that the flu jab can cause flu and colds? The Sun
Some grumble and gripe, and lurch from crisis to crisis.
Resentment was bottled up, his gripes about not getting opportunities were unuttered because deep down he blamed himself. Times, Sunday Times
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My original gripe was with the lack of diversity and the total disconnect of the media with its public.
You gripe under your breath about everything because you're so sensitive.
One of the biggest gripes is the fact that lenders can increase these fees during the mortgage term. Times, Sunday Times
I do not want beefs and gripes - I need genuine areas of difficulty which are causing work life imbalance.
I don’t care what people watch and what they get into, my main gripe is I get this feeling that there are some smelly men in suits somewhere smirking at what they can get away with on TV, and counting themselves as avant guard and artistic. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - This is what I hate about HBO.
Be calm soured, scaping anguish-draughts that gripe and bren: The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
For those who don't go racing that often, this might seem like a minor gripe. The Sun
Minor gripes aside, it is an admirable source of affordable, catchy modern design. Times, Sunday Times
My only gripe is that one main course and one dessert were unavailable.
The only gripes are the plasticky case and run-of-the-mill stereo speakers. Times, Sunday Times
When it came time to sit in our circle and take turns airing our parenting gripes in a non-confrontational, non-judgmental manner, I quietly took my place on the floor.
They catch their breath and gripe about the trail.
The Crimson Hand expressed the ineludible gripe, in which mortality clutches the highest and purest of earthly mould, degrading them into kindred with the lowest, and even with the very brutes, like whom their Mosses from an Old Manse
The crimson hand expressed the ineludible gripe in which mortality clutches the highest and purest of earthly mould, degrading them into kindred with the lowest, and even with the very brutes, like whom their visible frames return to dust. The Short-story
My main gripe with the game is the speed at which your target on screen follows your movements with the gun. The Sun
What it wer he could not think; but he never consayted there was a freet or a bo thereaway; so he kep near it, watching every spang and turn it took, till it ran into the gripe by the roadside. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3
This is the year in which I have no earthly reason to gripe, complain and stamp my feet over the results of the annual Academy Awards competition.
Another gripe is salt levels - fractionally higher in some organic cured meats, and mayonnaise, than in their non-organic counterparts.
Social media was flooded with jokes and gripes about it. The Sun
SERVES 4Barolo wine (or a Piedmont wine such as Barbera) 400ml lemon rind (unwaxed) 2 stripsorange rind (unwaxed) 2 stripscloves 2bay leaf 1caster sugar 200gripe pears such as Williams - do not peel just wash, then cut in half 2 panettone 4 slices, to servemascarpone or vanilla ice cream Add all the ingredients, except the pears and panettone, and 180ml water to a pan that will hold the fruit. Sam Harris's Italian Christmas recipes
For those who don't go racing that often, this might seem like a minor gripe. The Sun
The one minor gripe I have is that the Pioneer doesn't have mudguards.
Despite my personal gripes with Beckett and his self-conscious intellectualism, ATD Productions have excelled themselves in creating what is a truly brilliant adaptation of an impossibly difficult play.
Isn't it time for hoteliers to gripe about their guests? Times, Sunday Times
Your gripe was that you did not get what you bargained for and expected because of this misrepresentation.
This results in a badly done job and a guilt-ridden employee who may gripe in anticipation of being criticized.
You occasionally hear anonymous label execs gripe about the low returns on streaming services, at least in comparison to the margins they used to enjoy for physical product. FutureBlog
The people take their religion from their minister "by scraps and mammocks, as he dispenses it in his Sunday's dole"; and "the superstitious man by his good will is an atheist, but being scared from thence by the pangs and gripes of a boiling conscience, all in a pudder shuffles up to himself such a God and such a worship as is most agreeable to remedy his fear. Milton
For those who don't go racing that often, this might seem like a minor gripe. The Sun
La OMS organiza nueva reunión sobre la gripe y el intercambio de virus gripales, mientras Europa analiza los "disparates" de la OMS Grupo de expertos considera que el acceso a los medicamentos seguros es una cuestión de salud pública y no de propiedad intelectual Print This Post Intellectual Property Watch
Others had a different gripe with his austere approach to soldiers' lifestyles. Times, Sunday Times
One gripe is skintight clothes disrupt the signal - so avoid Lycra. The Sun
It's a common gripe that all-seater stadiums and gentrification have destroyed the atmosphere at football matches.
If we had a minor gripe it was certainly not with the food but with the service.
‘Everything was fine until you walked in,’ he griped some, before turning back to the communications panel.
Your biggest gripe is that there's so little you can do to put things right. Times, Sunday Times
Oh the worst thing is me engripe last week bien feo and I still have a horrible cough. Class/private instruction on accent reduction/elimination in Tijuana or BCN?
And it's cool to have someone to share the gripes and probs of growing up.
But these are minor gripes. Times, Sunday Times
And their chief gripe about the town? Times, Sunday Times
Winifred ... is the subject of one of my main gripes with the movie Ballet Shoes. Mrissa: They'll put it on my tombstone: "The book was better."
My only major gripe is that this book covers all four English Praxis II tests instead of focusing on just one test (10041). CliffsTestPrep Praxis II: English Subject Area Assessments « Books « Literacy News
But it addresses a big gripe. The Sun
Oh the worst thing is me engripe last week bien feo and I still have a horrible cough. Class/private instruction on accent reduction/elimination in Tijuana or BCN?
U.S. government officials told him that al Qaeda and its affiliates "griped" about Guantanamo in only 58 out of hundreds of public statements and interviews between 2003 and 2009. Gitmo Is Not a Recruiting Tool for Terrorists
Then there's his gripe about having to pay a €125 deposit for his broadband service and not receiving a receipt to acknowledge that he's coughed up.
Though it seemed a legitimate gripe, complaining did no good.
She didn't complain or gripe often, but she always wanted to be part of the conversation, or always wanted someone who would listen to her.
My only gripe is that, for the price, it's a little on the thin side.
Drivers of course should obey the law and have always griped about tickets, but Americans rightly feel outraged when they believe others game the system to use the law as a way to pick their pockets. Phineas Baxandall: In the Public Interest: Problems With Privatized Law Enforcement's New Frontier
Last week, Glastonbury supremo Michael Eavis griped that booking the Wombles to play the legendary pop festival had been a mistake. Are U2 bad for Glastonbury?
Our minor gripes were far out-weighed by some superb service and good quality food.
As Simon strolled pensively through a little silvan glade, surrounded on either side with tall forest trees, mixed with underwood, a white doe broke from the thicket, closely pursued by two deer greyhounds, one of which griped her haunch, the other her throat, and pulled her down within half a furlong of the glover, who was something startled at the suddenness of the incident. The Fair Maid of Perth
However for all the troops out there here are some gripes from the control room: If I Can’t Have You Nobody Can « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
But get over those very minor gripes and you're looking at an essential purchase. The Sun
But what about the gripe that the flu jab can cause flu and colds? The Sun
And their chief gripe about the town? Times, Sunday Times
These guys don't exactly have the recent credentials to back themselves up in gripes about playing time and competition for jobs. USATODAY.com - Searching for Cinderella
The main gripes of the anti-Howard/anti-Hanson forces are as follows, not in order of preference.
In Britain, his main gripes were spreading suburbia, neglected defences, and the rise of a pliant state-educated clerisy.
One gripe has been that there is a lack of leadership. Times, Sunday Times
Lee's main gripe, she says, is that good clients are being treated like people at risk. Sliding economy raises questions about credit scores
When the weather breaks many fall sick, this being the time of an endemical sickness, for seasonings, cachexes, fluxes, scorbutical dropsies, gripes, or the like which I have attributed to this reason. Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699
The method in this case depends a lot on the participants, and with people like gripened, implex, dewan and so on, apart from Aarav Sir (it goes without saying that he has a major major role), ensured that the discussion was healthy and exhaustive. Undefined
But it addresses a big gripe. The Sun
One of your gripes is the length of time they take to adjudicate on disciplinary matters.
She gave some medicine to me when my stomach griped.
My biggest gripe with “Startide Rising” was that Brin never revealed the nature of the catalysmic discovery made by the wolfling humans. Show #9: Pre-show Discussion : The Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas
One gripe has been that there is a lack of leadership. Times, Sunday Times
Booking fees of up to 15 per ticket are not uncommon and are a big gripe for consumers. Times, Sunday Times
The main menu is fine, but I have few minor gripes about the control setup.
Another one of my gripes is PCSO, wouldnt it just have been easier to train tehm as ‘proper’ police officers so when they do get teh 14 year old having a tnatrum they dont have to lock themselves in a room and call a ‘proper’ copper to come and help them One In A Million « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Griper Grace C. reported two months ago the mosquito had infested her neighborhood in the 4600 block of Clark Place in NW D.C. She wrote the D.C. Department of Health confirmed the block had a problem with the insects and even treated sewers with a larvacide, but, it seems, the problem persists. Public enemy number one of summer fun
His fans' main gripe is that he is such a slow writer. Times, Sunday Times
He griped because I had drunk all his orange juice.
Even as authors griped about heavy-handed editing, readers complained that the articles were too long and too difficult - not edited enough.
There are some minor gripes I do have with the game play.
The first reaction was the violence and what you see in the media but the most telling aspect is that a couple of people said the majority of the protesters have legitimate gripes.
Maybe the inevitable conversations about nappy rash and gripe water, far from making me clucky, will make me want to run out and have my tongue pierced and drink cider in the park.
A lot of this footage is recycled from other wildlife films, but that's a minor gripe. Times, Sunday Times
My last gripe about eBay: sniping.
All the tried-and-tested gripes about it being a waste of taxpayers' money and not being any more artful than, say, the fire extinguisher or the plug socket resounded around the room.
But get over those very minor gripes and you're looking at an essential purchase. The Sun
My main gripe is that the mobile sites are hosted at the wirenode. mobi domain, though I'd imagine it is possible to transport them over to your own servers too. The Thinking Blog Goes Mobile (And So Can You)
But it functions as a summation of lefty gripes about life in these United States.
One of their main gripes: Community boards are unfair. Clubs, Eateries Target Local Boards
All this internal chain of feudal dependance is artificial and sophisticated; and I would rather hold the baton of my poor marquisate with a firm gripe, and wield it after my pleasure, than the sceptre of a monarch, to be in effect restrained and curbed by the will of as many proud feudal barons as hold land under the Assizes of Jerusalem. The Talisman
Apart from English gripes about the weather, the main source of criticism was the cost of holidaying in Scotland, with one in three continental tourists complaining about value for money.
Many women's sports administrators and officials constantly gripe and complain about the lack of support they receive from sponsorship and the media.
Holding me with a strong gripe by the cord that tied my hands, he with many oaths threatened to kill me immediately if I would not be quiet.
I personally cannot imagine a group of lawmakers 200 years ago sitting around discussing what bits of a woman's body her husband may or may not touch; † but in short, the fact that sexual pleasure can be received from a nonreproductive sex act gripes some peoples 'souls. June 1st, 2005
But these are minor gripes. Times, Sunday Times
But the main gripe was the entertainment. Times, Sunday Times
I suppose my main gripe is the gender politics of this show, which I'm assuming is targeting a mainly female audience.
They might gripe about money and whinge over this and that, but at the end of the day, most of us just want to believe in something good.
Isn't it time for hoteliers to gripe about their guests? Times, Sunday Times
Booking fees of up to 15 per ticket are not uncommon and are a big gripe for consumers. Times, Sunday Times
I have one other serious gripe about the launch. Times, Sunday Times
How do you do it? cheeped the Gripes in a wherry whiggy maudelenian woice and the jack - asses all within bawl laughed and brayed for his intentions for they knew their sly toad lowry now. Finnegans Wake
There were three main gripes. Times, Sunday Times
He's a youthful crosspatch, a reedy-voiced adolescent with a gripe. Hamlet; Passion; Beautiful Burnout; Wanderlust
To make the guest list, invitees would have to possess the ability to grumble, rant, complain, gripe, fuss, snarl, groan, scream and kvetch - preferably all at the same time.
Privatisation was one of the group's main gripes, according to the memorandum.
GOT a gripe about something you bought but no time to sort it out? The Sun
One small gripe is that the manuals have not been rewritten since the advent of version 4.
GOT a gripe about something you bought but no time to sort it out? The Sun
But the main gripe was the entertainment. Times, Sunday Times
They will grumble, they will gripe, they will moan about waiting lists and rotten food.
I have one other serious gripe about the launch. Times, Sunday Times
But if the only gripe you can have about watching two discs of soccer highlights is that the music sucks, it's not a bad complaint.
My one real gripe is that, after just a couple of weeks, you might get bored of the activities. The Sun
Booking fees of up to 15 per ticket are not uncommon and are a big gripe for consumers. Times, Sunday Times
“Name her not — and for an instant think not of her,” said the King, again straining the curtal-axe in his gripe, until the muscles started above his brawny arm, like cordage formed by the ivy around the limb of an oak. The Talisman
My gripe comes from the increase in visitor permit fees.
Yes | No | Report from Carney wrote 1 year 5 days ago silsbyj, When I was growing up my sisters hated, griped, complained non-stop about the smell of #9. The Tragic Tale of Berthold the Blaser
Your biggest gripe is that there's so little you can do to put things right. Times, Sunday Times
Well, you can bitch, gripe, moan, groan, whine, cry and complain all you want.
Blimey, I guess when people gripe, they gripe to thier superiors, this one has gome all the way to ‘McNumpty’ They Don’t Like It Up ‘Em! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
But minor gripes aside, this is a great, original film.
The regular gripe about multi-band events is often the fact that set-up times are almost as long as the sets themselves, which is where the most efficient team of roadies I've seen in a long time come into play.
We are not here to gripe about taxes and Obamacare, no siree. Hank Stuever previews WEtv's 'Sunset Daze'
Her main gripe is that she's not being trained properly.
-- Comp.: fēond -, hilde-grāp. grāpian, w. v., _to grasp, to lay hold of, to seize_: pret.sg. þæt hire wið halse heard grāpode, _that_ (the sword) _griped hard at her neck_, Beowulf
It started to gripe my stomach too.
A lot of this footage is recycled from other wildlife films, but that's a minor gripe. Times, Sunday Times
Passengers pointed to overcrowding, delays, poor conditions and frequency as their main gripes.
The A-Darter will still notionally equip SAAF Gripens, but a long-awaited series of initial flight tests have yet to occur and the future of the programme is in doubt.
Since you mention technology in hotels, my big gripe is the keycards that get demagnetized when near a cell phone. Why Can’t Hotels Get Tech Right? « Steve Wildstrom on Tech
When I brought him home he slept and then he started to cry loudly and I thought he had gripe.
And one last gripe concerns food. Times, Sunday Times
And one last gripe concerns food. Times, Sunday Times
On the 18th he struck out at surplus women hanging around the army, a particular gripe with him; on the 21st he fixed the liquor ration per the standing regulations, threatening to confine any sutler who sold extra spirits. George Washington’s First War
My main gripe with the game is the speed at which your target on screen follows your movements with the gun. The Sun
For weeks I griped and complained about the fact that my boxes hadn't arrived from England yet.
This is a minor gripe, though. Times, Sunday Times
My only gripe, and who am I to cavil at Shakespeare, is that Pacino and Irons do such a good job that the jiggery pokery at the end about rings and sworn faithfulness seems an irritant.
My big gripe came at breakfast, when I wished for good coffee and proper jams rather than those beastly mini-pots and mini-butter pats, and even beastlier sachets of mustard. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
However much a skipper may gripe, maintenance is as much a part of boating as voyaging itself - and (if the truth be told) as enjoyable.
These are all relatively minor gripes, admittedly.
The gripe is about the pace of the transition to the new system. Times, Sunday Times
This conversation will merely be replaced with the gripes from the side who didn't get their wish. Council Should Unite Behind McGinn On The Tunnel Cost Overrun Provision « PubliCola
One of Brian's gripes is that, as authors so often say in his position, the reviewer does not seem to have read the book. Worms on toast
My main gripe is that, for some unknown reason, web pages now refuse to recognise that I have Shockwave and Java plugins installed on the browser. Sentiment Analysis for Internet Explorer; Comparing to Firefox
Only gripe is I originally super glued washers every few inches on the wire as stops to keep the rods from sliding and tangling. Turn Your Pick-Up Into a Fishing Machine

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