COMPLAINT in a Sentence

Learn COMPLAINT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
114 example sentences for COMPLAINT, such as:
1. This is a cause of complaint.
2. It is a very easy complaint to imitate.
3. My doctor prescribes aspirin for every complaint.
4. He who makes constant complaint gets little compassion.
5. If you have a complaint, contact the customer care unit.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of COMPLAINT
complaint
 n.  an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining
 n.  (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense
Classic Sentence: (73 in 5 pages)
1  And when, some days afterwards, it was announced that from now on the pigs would get up an hour later in the mornings than the other animals, no complaint was made about that either.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
2  The seizure of the station with a fit of trembling, gradually deepening to a complaint of the heart, announced the train.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
3  The fever was subdued; the fever had been his complaint; of course he would soon be well again.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
4  Mr. Bumble turned, and encountered the face of his interesting consort, who, imperfectly comprehending the few words she had overheard of his complaint, had hazarded the foregoing remark at a venture.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
5  I have not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
6  I've driven my cab this seven years and never a word of complaint.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5. Three Broken Threads
7  No complaint had been lodged with the police, so that Beddoes had mistaken a threat for a deed.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
8  It is a very easy complaint to imitate.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient
9  See here, mister," said he, "I make no complaint of being man-handled in this fashion, but I would have you call things by their right names.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
10  She deeply hated Father Madeleine, but made no complaint.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS
11  You will tell her that she must enter her complaint against carter Pierre Chesnelong.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP
12  Her thought was clearly perceptible, but she uttered no name, she made no complaint, she blamed no one.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF
13  She made no complaint, but she was weary, and Jean Valjean perceived it by the way she dragged more and more on his hand as she walked.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XI—NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN...
14  That which crawls in the social third lower level is no longer complaint stifled by the absolute; it is the protest of matter.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS
15  Let us enter equal complaint against stomachs and minds which do not eat.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
Example Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1  The road-works caused much complaint among local residents.
2  If you have a complaint, contact the customer care unit.
3  The alleged victim made the complaint at a police station in York.
4  As selfishness and complaint cloud the mind,so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
5  This is a cause of complaint.
6  The company has been sitting on my letter for weeks without dealing with my complaint.
7  Portugal has lodged a complaint with the International Court of Justice.
8  My doctor prescribes aspirin for every complaint.
9  A united effort is always more effective than an isolated complaint.
10  Her life was finally extinguished by the onset of liver complaint.
11  He who makes constant complaint gets little compassion.
12  It's annoying, but I don't think I'll go to the trouble of making an official complaint.
13  You may refer your complaint to an independent adjudicator.
14  When her supervisor ignored her complaint, she took her grievance to the union.
15  The most recent action in this spat is a complaint from Apple that mirrors Nokia's first complaint from October.