carping

Example Sentences

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These interventions can irk the grassroots, and there will be some carping over the Daines move.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

Believe me, I’m completely aware that I sound like a Scrooge, a buzzkill harping and carping about innocuous movies that are meant to be little more than background noise while people scroll on their phones.

From Salon • Dec. 21, 2024

Respectfully, the fans carping about coach DeShaun Foster after three games of a predictably difficult season are missing an essential point.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2024

After enough of his students’ carping, however, Hayes decided to put the snakes to the test.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 3, 2024

Three years had passed since Bradbury had offered an almost identical defense to the AEC’s Colonel Fields, but Teller had never ceased carping about Los Alamos.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik