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
  • Sometimes she’s had to file grievances to force changes.
    Katie Moore, Kansas City Star, 2 May 2024
  • Uber at the time also had amassed a long list of public grievances.
    Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Leone got some pushback on teasing the record and took to X to air his grievances.
    Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 25 July 2024
  • 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
  • He is consumed with grievance, and the man is out for unchecked power.
    ABC News, 3 Nov. 2024
  • This is also where Erin first airs her grievances with Jenna.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2024
  • More than a dozen locals have withdrawn grievances filed as part of the process, according to the company, but the union can refile them.
    Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 30 Oct. 2024

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