COMPLEX in a Sentence

Learn COMPLEX 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.
95 example sentences for COMPLEX, such as:
1. Dublin was a new and complex sensation.
2. They are the last refuge of the complex.
3. The plot of the TV series is quite complex.
4. This case of yours is very complex, Sir Henry.
5. The company has a complex organizational structure.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of COMPLEX
complex
 n.  a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts
 n.  a compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated
Classic Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1  Now and again a case turns up which is a little more complex.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  This case of yours is very complex, Sir Henry.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5. Three Broken Threads
3  Holmes himself had said that no more complex case had come to him in all the long series of his sensational investigations.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House
4  It fills up a gap which I had been unable to bridge in this most complex affair.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor
5  A minute examination of the circumstances served only to make the case more complex.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
6  I have no desire to make mysteries, but it is impossible at the moment of action to enter into long and complex explanations.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
7  Now, Watson, I think that we shall find that we have a long and rather complex day's work before us.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
8  Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
9  Yet these people were clothed in pleasant fabrics that must at times need renewal, and their sandals, though undecorated, were fairly complex specimens of metalwork.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
10  And during these few revolutions all the activity, all the traditions, the complex organizations, the nations, languages, literatures, aspirations, even the mere memory of Man as I knew him, had been swept out of existence.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VII
11  Dublin was a new and complex sensation.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
12  You apprehend it as complex, multiple, divisible, separable, made up of its parts, the result of its parts and their sum, harmonious.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
13  His questions showed me how complex and mysterious were certain institutions of the Church which I had always regarded as the simplest acts.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE SISTERS
14  They are the last refuge of the complex.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
15  There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences, yet it was not a simple, but rather a very complex passion.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
Example Sentence: (57 in 4 pages)
1  His skill lies in his ability to communicate quite complex ideas very simply.
2  The plot of the TV series is quite complex.
3  In a complex world,to insist upon simplicity is foolish.
4  Buddhist ethics are simple but its practices are very complex to a western mind.
5  The pilot has to carry out a series of complex manoeuvres.
6  Wye Lea is a collection of farm buildings that have been converted into an attractive complex.
7  The company has a complex organizational structure.
8  Also present is the concept of aesthetic pleasure emerging as a by-product of the successful ordering of complex data.
9  As the world becomes more complex, some things do, of course, standardize and globalize.
10  Solving complex problems may require choosing from so many alternatives at each step that it is very difficult to algorithmically define solutions.
11  Later centuries saw the development of a complex transport system.
12  Our personalities result from the complex interplay between our genes and our environment.
13  The architect had produced a scale model of the proposed shopping complex.
14  A complex system of muscles is brought into play for each body movement.
15  We next had to navigate a complex network of committees.