How To Use Gripes In A Sentence
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These are all relatively minor gripes, admittedly.
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There were three main gripes.
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One of the biggest gripes is the fact that lenders can increase these fees during the mortgage term.
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But these are minor gripes.
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Social media was flooded with jokes and gripes about it.
The Sun
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Oh, and for those who wanted my full Angel gripes, here they are: hidden behind this seemingly impenetrable cut-tag lurk radioactive spoilers
Random Friday
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For many if not most bloggers, their blog is at times an outlet for grumbles, gripes and general complaints about their lot in life - a release valve, somewhere they can let off steam.
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One of the biggest gripes is the fact that lenders can increase these fees during the mortgage term.
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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
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This conversation will merely be replaced with the gripes from the side who didn't get their wish.
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Minor gripes aside, it is an admirable source of affordable, catchy modern design.
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Passengers pointed to overcrowding, delays, poor conditions and frequency as their main gripes.
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But minor gripes aside, this is a great, original film.
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Privatisation was one of the group's main gripes, according to the memorandum.
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There were three main gripes.
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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
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But these are minor gripes.
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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
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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.
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One of their main gripes: Community boards are unfair.
Clubs, Eateries Target Local Boards
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They have been listening to people's gripes, moans and praise.
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Consuming not-so-fresh egg yolk can give you gripes and the runs.
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Orlando folk can e-mail or telephone their gripes about what's wrong with life.
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A few gripes do jump out from the correspondence: dishwasher powder left undissolved and weak grease-cutting agents.
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But to cloak one's personal gripes, however subconsciously, in the cloak of solidarity with all downtrodden is just plain disingenuous -- to use the nicest word.
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But the move is greeted by the gripes and whines of local competitors who have grown accustomed to living off the scraps of their presence.
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Mary's the kind of churchgoer who comes home after Mass and starts right in with the petty gripes; she's mean and she knows it.
Theater review: 'The Savannah Disputation' at Olney Theatre Center
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But all gripes aside, it is still an effective and moving portrait.
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It's surprising how gripes or problems can be smoothed over by the simple gesture of feeding the crew or paying travelling expenses.
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Minor gripes aside, it is an admirable source of affordable, catchy modern design.
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But it functions as a summation of lefty gripes about life in these United States.
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Are you the sort of player who gripes and complains all the time about your putting?
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The sizeable coaching staff is just one complaint on the list of gripes which is steadily poisoning the atmosphere in Dunfermline these days and fans would be in uproar if yet more back-up was employed.
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It just made impatient about having to wait four weeks before being allowed to leave all my niggles and gripes behind.
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There's some tweaking of both feminist and male chauvinist canards in the new sketch, which degenerates quickly into a session of gripes and accusations, the women playing absurdist versions of themselves.
Tom Shales reviews tonight's retrospecial,'The Women of "Saturday Night Live"'
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Read our biggest gripes on page 4 and tell us yours.
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Other key gripes are substandard car servicing, builders and upholstery work.
The Sun
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Bring all your gripes to the boss.
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There were three main gripes.
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The results also confirmed Australia's pet gripes about strollers - namely their bulkiness, difficulties unfolding the stroller and lack of storage compartments.
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He gripes that being a Canadian actor has limited the roles he has been offered.
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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.
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The only gripes are the plasticky case and run-of-the-mill stereo speakers.
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Minor gripes aside, it is an admirable source of affordable, catchy modern design.
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I do not want beefs and gripes - I need genuine areas of difficulty which are causing work life imbalance.
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One of the biggest gripes is the fact that lenders can increase these fees during the mortgage term.
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Resentment was bottled up, his gripes about not getting opportunities were unuttered because deep down he blamed himself.
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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.
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But these are minor gripes and most people won't notice or care about it.
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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
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Social media was flooded with jokes and gripes about it.
The Sun
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Is it permitted to air a few gripes?
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But get over those very minor gripes and you're looking at an essential purchase.
The Sun
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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
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Read our biggest gripes on page 4 and tell us yours.
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Read our biggest gripes on page 4 and tell us yours.
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Of the five local opinions sought on the operations of the Council, traffic and parking gripes predominated.
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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"
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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?
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Though the Hives open themselves up to style-over-substance gripes, there is real feeling amidst their artifice and formalism.
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The main gripes of the anti-Howard/anti-Hanson forces are as follows, not in order of preference.
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But get over those very minor gripes and you're looking at an essential purchase.
The Sun
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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.
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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.
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There are some minor gripes I do have with the game play.
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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
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The main menu is fine, but I have few minor gripes about the control setup.
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One of your gripes is the length of time they take to adjudicate on disciplinary matters.
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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
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In Britain, his main gripes were spreading suburbia, neglected defences, and the rise of a pliant state-educated clerisy.
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Social media was flooded with jokes and gripes about it.
The Sun
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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
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But get over those very minor gripes and you're looking at an essential purchase.
The Sun
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However for all the troops out there here are some gripes from the control room:
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Our minor gripes were far out-weighed by some superb service and good quality food.
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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."
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But these are minor gripes.
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And it's cool to have someone to share the gripes and probs of growing up.
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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
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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.
