How to Use gripe in a Sentence

gripe

1 of 2 verb

• The students griped that they had too much homework.
• All of the workers were griping about the new regulations.
• All that said, Wild fans might not have the most to gripe about in all this.
  — Michael Rand, Star Tribune, 11 Aug. 2020
• There was griping about its scale, but it was built within the law; that was the city’s fault, not the builder’s.
  — Curbed, 2 Oct. 2023
• One of the many things Bostonians love to argue (or gripe) about is the layout of the city.
  — Nina MacLaughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2018
• Good players shouldn’t gripe about not making the Pro Bowl.
  — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Dec. 2021
• People gripe about having to hear the same repertoire over and over.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022
• Bicker about the tidying-up or gripe about Dad’s loud sneeze?
  — Ivan Brett, New York Times, 23 July 2019
• Oftentimes, people would gripe about the hours, the long days.
  — Kristine Phillips, Washington Post, 5 July 2017
• Still others gripe that the Army should never have closed the post or, at the very least, should’ve held onto the land.
  — Sam McManis, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
• Of course, some riders still found something to gripe about.
  — Winnie Hu, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2017
• Those watching from home grumble most about the where, while those who want to attend home games gripe about the when.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2019
• Paltrow’s lawyer griped to the judge Wednesday about a camera in the courtroom that was trained on his client’s face.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2023
• Docs consider colonoscopy the gold standard; patients gripe about the prep.
  — Amy Marturana Winderl, Men's Health, 9 Dec. 2022
• And while consumers may gripe over the increase, the owners of Halal Plates are facing a surge in prices, too.
  — Emmett Lindner, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2024
• And during large street events, visitors gripe about the lack of parking.
  — Martin E. Comas, Orlando Sentinel, 29 July 2022
• And the guys griping about NIL, griping about transfer portal are using it the most and bragging about it the most.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 31 May 2023
• Williams offers a brusque, flinty turn as a character all too happy to gripe — and all too proud to ask for help.
  — Thomas Page, Cnn, CNN, 8 Apr. 2023
• Next time your child comes home from OSU griping about campus housing food, tell them to zip it.
  — oregonlive, 17 Feb. 2023
• And surely no one anywhere will gripe about the reduction of pre-season games from four to three.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 22 Feb. 2020
• Christie had been griping for weeks that Haley had not come out swinging against Trump.
  — USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2024
• In Season 8, one contestant, Lex, used his time to gripe about Rob, one of the finalists.
  — Sallie Tisdale, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2022
• Customers have taken to social media for months to gripe about the cooking method.
  — Sarah Min, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2019
• The left will gripe that Americans who don’t have access to paid leave also don’t have enough money to save.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2018
• The idea is to not just gripe about this frustrating city, but to take time to celebrate its wonder and whimsy too.
  — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2021
• Of the group, her daughter, Mia Lawson, 19, a sophomore at the University of Tennessee, had the most to gripe about.
  — John MacCormack, ExpressNews.com, 17 Mar. 2020
• LSU players also did not gripe about the lack of replay ability on that play.
  — Christopher Dabe, NOLA.com, 27 June 2017
• Perlmutter has long griped about the high cost of Marvel films, putting him at odds with others at Disney.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2023
• As such, there have been a growing number of stories in which Democrats gripe and grumble that Biden’s age is a problem.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 20 Feb. 2023
• One: Being fortunate enough to have a job that allows you to work from home right now doesn’t mean you aren’t allowed to gripe about work.
  — Caity Weaver, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2020

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gripe

2 of 2 noun

• I would rather not listen to gripes about your latest disasters in the dating game.
• The comics in the 515 can be a proud bunch, prone to the odd clique and gripe over stage time.
  — Lee Keeler, SPIN, 10 May 2022
• My main gripe is the windscreen, which is not the best.
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 30 Aug. 2023
• My main gripe is that the onboard venues feel too small.
  — Megan Dubois, Chron, 24 Nov. 2022
• The gripe here is in the mediocre outcome the Patriots got from the two picks.
  — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2022
• And this is more of a gripe, but there's no detailed way to track the battery life of the case while in the app.
  — Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2021
• The second gripe is that the phone’s video recording right now has a bit of a hiccup.
  — Ben Sin, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021
• One of the gripes is about the latest film being a musical.
  — Scott Hocker, theweek, 7 Jan. 2024
• But her gripe about the Covid vaccines may soon be settled.
  — Benjamin Mueller, New York Times, 4 July 2022
• Perkins said his pay was not his main gripe with Starbucks.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [e-mail], al, 26 May 2022
• Blanco Brown has a gripe with the current state of music.
  — Tricia Despres, Peoplemag, 13 Jan. 2023
• And, oh, the varied gripes people have about the right way to make a movie musical.
  — Scott Hocker, theweek, 21 Jan. 2024
• My only gripe—aside from the high price tag—is its short battery life.
  — Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 12 July 2023
• As frequent fliers will tell you, there are a lot of gripes to be had with air travel.
  — Sophie Dweck, Town & Country, 6 July 2023
• But their biggest gripe was the cut to laundry service.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2022
• The list of council members’ gripes against McGehee is lengthy.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 14 June 2023
• The Bruins may have had a gripe, but the Penguins had history.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2022
• Because for a few years, the biggest gripe about foldables was their $2,000-ish price.
  — Ben Sin, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
• My biggest gripe with my brow gels of yore is that the hold never gave what it was supposed to give.
  — Emerald Elitou, Essence, 10 Mar. 2022
• Fast forward to 2023 and pretty much every gripe on my list has been solved.
  — Nick Guy, wsj.com, 22 Sep. 2023
• Very much a traditional sports car, with all the joys and gripes that entails.
  — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 19 Aug. 2023
• The mother-of-three shared a more specific gripe with the neighborhood geese.
  — Lanae Brody, PEOPLE.com, 28 June 2022
• Our only gripes were, first, the lack of a decent warranty.
  — Mike Richard, Men's Health, 14 Aug. 2023
• But that was my first and last real gripe about the motorcycle.
  — Josh Max, Forbes, 16 June 2022
• Our only gripe is with the battery life, which left much to be desired in our testing.
  — Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2023
• The district's gripe with Street Angels stems from the group's willingness to provide tents to the homeless.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 10 Oct. 2022
• So this time, is Schaffer saying David has nothing left to gripe about?
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Feb. 2024
• Our other gripe is that the sofa is a little bit small, and the wood framing doesn’t allow for much give.
  — Olivia Avitt, Peoplemag, 3 July 2023
• One gripe customers mention, though, is that there's some slight off-gassing, which isn't too pleasant to smell.
  — Jackie Lam, Women's Health, 21 Aug. 2023
• Just back from Canada, the queen later complained of jet lag, prompting Friberg to lodge his own gripe.
  — Mark Eddington, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024