How to Use complicated in a Sentence

complicated

adjective

• The game's rules are too complicated.
• The machine has a complicated design.
• So, the road here has been a long, messy, complicated one.
  — Marc Wortman, Rolling Stone, 25 Dec. 2023
• This is a dense, complicated novel, not one to speed through on a two-hour flight.
  — Shawna Seed, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
• In it, mothers and daughters look back at the complicated legacies that linger across the decades.
  — Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 1 Sep. 2023
• So that is the complicated knot that the Israeli Defense Forces find themselves in.
  — CBS News, 19 Nov. 2023
• The drawings are fun but not overly complicated, and there are quite a few coffee recipes to test out as well.
  — Nykia Spradley, Glamour, 20 Sep. 2023
• The world’s most complicated watch made by Vacheron Constantin.
  — Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 15 Apr. 2024
• The big farewell episode finds Gibbs untangling a complicated case that takes him to Alaska.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024
• His role fit in with Thorne’s to give Auburn a dynamic athlete down in the tightest part of the field where throwing is complicated.
  — Matt Cohen | [e-mail], al, 2 Sep. 2023
• How complicated does that make this issue, and how does the DHS hope this plan might offer solutions there?
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2024
• Maybe this gets to something that’s been complicated about the current rise in antisemitism.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2023
• And, unlike some more complicated folding bikes, the folding happens in a single step — pull down the lever and the bike collapses.
  — Nathan Borchelt, Travel + Leisure, 16 Feb. 2024
• The Branch Ergonomic Chair was complicated to build; assembly took double the time of most of the other chairs due to the many parts and the absence of instructions.
  — Jenni Gritters, wsj.com, 20 Sep. 2023
• And that’s also something that’s so complicated by grief, right?
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• The student loan forgiveness term for SAVE is a bit complicated.
  — Adam S. Minsky, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• Each of the best slingshots listed here will do their jobs well, without being overly complicated to set up and use.
  — Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 13 Sep. 2023
• Their social lives are rich, complicated, and, some would say, ideal.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• The breakup of Simon and Garfunkel was as mysterious and complicated as the breakup of the Beatles; both groups were marriages.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Sep. 2023
• As with the Valve Index, setup is rather complicated, with two base station sensors and plenty of PC steps.
  — Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2023
• But his injuries had left his right leg more than an inch shorter than his left, which could be fixed only with a complicated surgery that would take him off his feet for months.
  — Safak Timur Emin Ozmen, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024
• The backstory to the new charges underscores just how complicated things can get when serving as a lawyer for a Trump employee.
  — Josh Dawsey, Devlin Barrett, Spencer S. Hsu, Anchorage Daily News, 30 July 2023
• Don't waste time and money at the store racking up ingredients for a complicated recipe.
  — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2023
• The system is more complicated than Etsy, holding 75 percent of the total amount a buyer paid.
  — Mia Sato, The Verge, 29 July 2023
• For those who can’t stand a complicated assembly for furniture, this is the perfect find.
  — Alida Nugent, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2024
• And there’s the question of site, which is — to put mildly — infernally complicated.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2023
• Avoiding weight gain in middle age doesn't require a complicated change in diet, a new study suggests.
  — Linda Carroll, NBC News, 29 Sep. 2023
• But in a market as complicated and competitive as New York City, this may not be in their best interests.
  — Anna Kodé, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• That's when the life of a gift card gets more complicated, with expiration dates or inactivity fees that can vary by state.
  — CBS News, 25 Dec. 2023
• Working out precisely what that might be, though, is more complicated than anyone would like.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 19 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024