How to Use grievance in a Sentence

grievance

noun

• She has been nursing a grievance all week.
• Several customers came to the front desk to air their grievances.
• He has a deep sense of grievance against his former employer.
• In the petition, the students listed their many grievances against the university administration.
• Can’t wait for the airing of grievances when the Colts get here.
  — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2018
• Petkis filed a union grievance against the town to get her job back.
  — Ken Byron, Courant Community, 21 June 2017
• This, of course, will keep the league away from what could be a raft of grievances.
  — Albert Breer, SI.com, 24 May 2018
• Go ahead and pick one of those for your grievance, or go off the menu.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2021
• When things fall apart, we get stuck in the grievance of the moment.
  — Jodi Ettenberg, CNN, 29 Jan. 2022
• The grievances could lead to giant penalties for the city.
  — Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2018
• Players would've needed to waive the right to file for a grievance against the league.
  — Bobby Nightengale, Cincinnati.com, 23 June 2020
• The union could then file a grievance if the Dodgers suspend or bench Bauer.
  — Houston Mitchell Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2021
• At its core, the grievance is over the wrong listing of a player.
  — Jim Owczarski, Cincinnati.com, 13 Feb. 2018
• Both Kaepernick and Reid have filed grievances against the league.
  — Noel Harris, sacbee, 22 May 2018
• This isn’t the first grievance filed against Barker-Groth.
  — Dallas News, 14 Feb. 2023
• But the epistolary style of the book is used not to dish dirt or list grievances.
  — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2024
• Thus grief was joined by grievance, the coin of the social media realm.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 31 Jan. 2020
• His speeches skew dark and grievance-ridden, even in the best of times.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2020
• Many of the same grievances are held by the women on the alternate squads that do not cheer.
  — Juliet MacUr, New York Times, 31 May 2018
• The right’s list of grievances against the FBI seems to be ever-expanding.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2023
• The worst fate, in Gurnah’s fiction, is to be left alone with guilt and grievance.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
• And the men and women who surround him feast on their own grievance.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2022
• Uber at the time also had amassed a long list of public grievances.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2018
• The idea was to avoid a last-minute airing of grievances or insult that could cost him the election.
  — Ryan Teague Beckwith, Time, 23 Jan. 2018
• Among Tom’s grievances is that Shiv didn’t want to have his baby.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2023
• Lee filed a grievance to call out the issues in the tenure review process.
  — Joshua Q. Nelson, Fox News, 15 Mar. 2023
• There was a river of grievance waiting to come out now.
  — Sana Krasikov, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
• Shapiro cannot file a grievance against the dean because he has not been punished.
  — John Hasnas, National Review, 16 Feb. 2022
• Ellison would not describe the specifics of the grievance.
  — Claire Bryan, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Mar. 2022
• Reid’s grievance against the league from last season is still in process, as is Kaepernick’s.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2018

Last Updated: 22 Apr 2024