(v. i.) To give utterance to expression of grief, pain, censure, regret. etc.; to lament; to murmur; to find fault; -- commonly used with of. Also, to creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel.
(v. i.) To make a formal accusation; to make a charge.
(v. t.) To lament; to bewail.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the ketamine group, 36% of the patients complained of unpleasant dreams.
(2) Sewel is also recorded complaining about the level of appearance allowances at the House of Lords .
(3) A case is presented of a 35-year-old woman who was brought to the emergency service by ambulance complaining of vomiting for 7 days and that she could not hear well because she was 'worn out'.
(4) Because they generally have to be positioned on hills to get the maximum benefits of the wind, some complain that they ruin the landscape.
(5) The matter is now in the hands of the Guernsey police and the law officers.” One resident who is a constant target of the paper and has complained to police, Rosie Guille, said the allegations had a “huge impact on morale” on the island.
(6) Unions have complained about the process for Chinese-backed companies to bring overseas workers to Australia for projects worth at least $150m, because the memorandum of understanding says “there will be no requirement for labour market testing” to enter into an investment facilitation arrangements (IFA).
(7) The degree of discomfort was slightly greater in women who complained of breast tenderness within three days prior to the mammogram but was not strongly related to age, menstrual status, or week of the menstrual cycle.
(8) Lofgren complains that " the crackpot outliers of two decades ago have become the vital centre today ".
(9) TGI was present in high titres in all five patients who complained about recurrent goitre.
(10) Hyperprolactinemia, hypogonadotropinism, and subnormal plasma testosterone were found in a 65-year-old patient who had an enlarged sella turcica, complained of fatigue, and addmitted to decreased sexual interest and potency.
(11) Fairly frequently the patients complained about mucosal dryness and sporadically about dyspeptic symptoms, but these symptoms were not disturbing the course of the treatment.
(12) A forty-four-year-old woman with Takayasu's arteritis and involvement of the aortic arch and its main branches complained of precordial pain on effort.
(13) The £1m fine, proposed during the Leveson inquiry into press standards, was designed to demonstrate how seriously the industry was taking lessons learned after the failure of the Press Complains Commission tto investigate phone hacking at the News of the World.
(14) That was what the earlier debate over “currency wars” – when emerging markets complained about being inundated by financial inflows from the US – was all about.
(15) These results are likely to underestimate the true number of complaints because participants may be withdrawn (e.g., deaths, losses to follow-up, and refusals) before they ever complain of an adverse effect.
(16) Hysterography and hysteroscopy have been compared in the diagnosis of endouterine benign pathology, in a group of 50 patients, complaining meno-metrorrhagia, sterility, infertility or amenorrhea.
(17) A 55-year-old Japanese man was admitted to our hospital in January 1985 complaining of epigastralgia.
(18) Israel has complained in recent weeks of an increase in stone throwing and molotov cocktail attacks on West Bank roads and in areas adjoining mainly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, where an elderly motorist died after crashing his car during an alleged stoning attack.
(19) The force said reports from its directorate of professional standards (DPS) were not routinely disclosed to complainants or outsiders.
(20) Although 41% of the participants complained of dry mouth, neither serious adverse effects nor evidence of medication abuse appeared.
Grizzle
Definition:
(n.) Gray; a gray color; a mixture of white and black.
Example Sentences:
(1) His defense was a big reason that the Grizzlies' offense was often stymied during the conference finals, so much so that he would probably be a person of interest if basketball investigators looked into the mysterious May disappearance of Grizzles forward Zach Randolph.
(2) There’s not an insignificant ‘if’ in that question, and that’s what everybody is pretty interested to find out, is what decision the vice-president is going to make.” ‘I didn’t deserve to be president’ Biden is a grizzled campaign veteran, and not in an entirely good way.
(3) John Simm plays a grizzled ex-cop from LA living in the Pacific north-west, who, when his wife (Mira Sorvino) goes missing, finds himself hurled into a mysterious, murky world.
(4) During his swing through the state on Thursday, he stopped to open a new campaign office in Ottumwa, packed to overflowing with wide-eyed students and grizzled party veterans.
(5) Art Cashin, a grizzled veteran of the New York Stock Exchange trading floor, just compared Bitcoin to the infamous Dutch tulip bubble , one of the standard comparisons for any serious modern financial crisis.
(6) I'd like to say I tasted them first on some misty Irish moorland, or was fed them by grizzled crofters in the Scottish highlands (where they are known as tattie scones).
(7) I’m grey, grizzled, just counting down the days to my death panel.” He added: “Even some foreign leaders have been looking ahead, anticipating my departure.
(8) It is like a driver coming to a roadblock on a road they’ve never travelled before and three grizzled veterans say: “Don’t go any further, we have been up and down this road many times and we’re warning you there are falling rocks, mudslides, dangerous hairpin bends and then a sheer drop.” And the driver says: “Screw you, stop patronising me.
(9) Ashker's journey from teenage tearaway to grizzled jailhouse scholar underpins a largely untold story of how Bobby Sands, Mayan cosmology, class-consciousness and the Arab spring inspired one of the biggest challenges to US penal policy in living memory.
(10) "That guy looks like he just got off tour in 1987," says Carney, gesturing at a particularly grizzled rocker, before quickly adding, "You have to be careful in Nashville about how loud you observe."
(11) In the red corner, Raúl Castro, grizzled veteran of the revolution led by his older brother Fidel, and now president of a Cuba once again undergoing dramatic change.
(12) Le Pen père is a grizzled ex-paratrooper who fought to keep Algeria French and founded the Front National in 1972 to highlight issues such as immigration, race and identity.
(13) "I don't know about you, but I'm getting tired of the big oil companies always bellyaching that we can't afford clean energy," says a grizzled old man in a faded checked work shirt.
(14) But the Tory MP Dominic Raab, a former government lawyer and member of parliament's joint committee on human rights, said: "We need a grizzled, criminal prosecutor rather than a defence, human rights lawyer.
(15) Second, black and white hair was collected from each of seven human subjects with grizzled hair, who were receiving or had been administered haloperidol at fixed daily doses for more than 1 month, and the concentration of haloperidol in each type of hair was measured.
(16) They soon find themselves in the middle of a blizzard, before they take shelter in a tiny shack alongside a group of grizzled, gun-toting outlaws.
(17) And the tiny facial gesture that a grizzled Donald Sutherland makes with his mouth at the very end, when he realises that the perfect running of his system has been undermined, made me give an inward cheer.
(18) When black and white hairs were taken from a patient with grizzled hair, who had been treated with ofloxacin, a much larger quantity of the drug was detected in the black hair.
(19) Then, as an illustration of exploratory categorical data analysis, the experimental data of Grizzle are analyzed by using the second method of quantification.
(20) Grizzle first proposed a two-stage procedure for analysing the data from such a trial.