How to Use complacent in a Sentence

complacent

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• We have grown too complacent over the years.
• The strong economy has made people complacent.
• We can't afford to be complacent about illiteracy.
• That's great, but now is not the time for the rest of us to get complacent.
  — Heather Hansman, Outside Online, 29 Jan. 2021
• The maps were still close in these matchups, so the Empire can’t get complacent against a strong team.
  — Sean Collins, Dallas News, 20 Aug. 2020
• The goal is to take the pressure off and not become too complacent.
  — Laura Berman, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2023
• In the meantime, though, the Sea Kings don’t expect to get complacent.
  — Matt Szabo, Daily Pilot, 27 Sep. 2017
• The Felix Project lamented that now is not the time for the country to get complacent.
  — Amy Nguyen, Forbes, 25 June 2021
• To be 5-0, that's a good start, but not being complacent is the hardest thing for guys not to do.
  — Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic, 11 Oct. 2021
• Clearly, the markets have been quite complacent about the Fed.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 25 Jan. 2022
• But no one should feel complacent that this work is done.
  — CBS News, 21 Jan. 2024
• Somewhere in the middle of the game, Rupp warned his guys to not become complacent.
  — Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 12 May 2018
• The cost of college is not an excuse to get complacent.
  — Kabir Rao, Fox News, 6 Feb. 2023
• Still, this is not a time to grow complacent, Sillett says.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2023
• But even with those blowout wins, the team is mindful of not getting complacent ahead of the playoffs.
  — Lila Bromberg, Hartford Courant, 13 Aug. 2022
• But the stock market is as complacent as most consumers seem to be.
  — Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2023
• Democrats might be feeling complacent with their party in control of the White House, the House and the Senate.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2021
• The last couple of years have taught us that such thinking was, at best, complacent.
  — SI.com, 15 Oct. 2019
• MilkWood chef Glenn Dougan isn't one to be complacent in his work.
  — Nancy Miller, The Courier-Journal, 19 June 2018
• And too many of us have become complacent and inured to the misery all around us.
  — Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, 13 July 2019
• Impressionism can seem the most benign, the most complacent, the most cliched of art styles.
  — Washington Post, 7 July 2022
• The days of being complacent with going five innings need to end.
  — Jeff Bailey, The Denver Post, 14 Aug. 2019
• But some had warned that the country had become complacent.
  — Fox News, 12 Aug. 2020
• Grow too slow and people get complacent, but grow too fast and people get burned out.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
• We’ve just got to keep pushing and keep fighting — can’t get complacent.
  — Susan Miller Degnan, miamiherald, 22 Oct. 2017
• In some cities, Ukrainians have become not just complacent about the danger but too weary of war to react to the threat of attacks.
  — New York Times, 17 July 2022
• Now Stricker will work to make sure his team doesn’t become complacent.
  — Steve Dimeglio, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2021
• The thing is, your competitors aren’t going to be complacent.
  — Pia Silva, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
• Biden was leading in the polls, but Project members weren’t feeling complacent.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2020
• The band was talking about the dangers of getting too complacent with a modicum success.
  — Patrick Crowley, Billboard, 29 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 9 May 2024