How to Use complacency in a Sentence

complacency

noun

• The public was lulled into complacency.
• An easy game has been known to lead to complacency, and that should sit in the minds of the Swansea team.
  — SI.com, 12 Dec. 2017
• The events of the last 24 hours made the case for complacency look weaker, and the case for concern stronger.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 30 Jan. 2018
• The lesson of 1923 now, some argue, is that there cannot be complacency about the scale of the threat.
  — Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2021
• One of the critical lessons of World War II was the cost of complacency.
  — Lt. General Leon Scott Rice, Boston Herald, 7 May 2025
• Maybe the feeling was the same among the Cavs' players, thus sowing the seeds of complacency.
  — Joe Vardon, cleveland.com, 2 Nov. 2017
• This isn’t a time for complacency and the faith that a bad performance fades on its own.
  — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 28 June 2024
• The second set of eyes gets better, and the risk of complacency also goes up.
  — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 21 June 2022
• The indictment of Sun shows, once again, the risks of such complacency.
  — The Editors, National Review, 5 Sep. 2024
• But shrugging it off is not the same thing as complacency.
  — Maren Estrada, BGR, 12 Dec. 2022
• Stage four Years six to 10 are what the Spencer Stuart researchers call the complacency trap.
  — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 30 May 2024
• This is not a time for complacency: A lot is riding on what the next City Council will do.
  — Editorial Board, Star Tribune, 15 June 2021
• As the rain lessens in Vermont, Scott cautioned against a false sense of complacency.
  — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 11 July 2023
• World events played a part in the expansion of the office, but so did complacency.
  — New York Times, 24 June 2021
• There’s been no complacency in Roland’s campaign thinking that this thing was in the bag.
  — Jasper Scherer, San Antonio Express-News, 26 June 2018
• The issue with relying too much on this kind of AI agent is the slow burn of complacency.
  — Reece Rogers, WIRED, 15 Jan. 2025
• Given the stakes, complacency is a greater risk than alarmism.
  — Graham Allison, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
• Harrell said his goal now is not to let complacency set in.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 4 July 2021
• These emotions are meant to shake us out of complacency, to sound the alarm to the very real crisis before us.
  — Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024
• The show has tried adding some twists here and there, but none of them are big enough to change what seems to be a game that has devolved into complacency.
  — Kyle Fowle, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2020
• And if that happens, the politicians’ complacency will hit a wall.
  — Clive Crook, Twin Cities, 29 May 2025
• But stability can bring complacency, which seems to be a big part of what The Acolyte is about.
  — Noel Murray, Vulture, 4 June 2024
• Of course, the best fictions run the gamut from complacency to catastrophe.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 25 June 2025
• Trump's goal may not be to actually take over Gaza, but to shake the world out of its complacency.
  — Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
• This is a stark reminder that our complacency is killing us.
  — German Lopez, Vox, 8 Oct. 2018
• Over optimism that led to complacency and a bit of hubris.
  — CBS News, 4 Nov. 2020
• But there is also a risk of complacency if board members stay in place too long.
  — Stuart Jackson, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
• But while their stories should give us hope, they can’t be cause for complacency.
  — Tom Steyer, Fortune, 28 May 2024
• That statistic alone is a call to action — and a warning against complacency.
  — Walter Duke Iii, Sun Sentinel, 10 July 2025
• History shows voters punish complacency when lawmakers ignore the mandate that sent them to Washington.
  — Erick Erickson, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 July 2025