Sentence examples for be complained from inspiring English sources

The correct phrase is "to complain." For example: The customer was angry and threatened to complain to the manager about the poor service.

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be complained

verb

To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.

  • Joe was always complaining about the noise made by his neighbours.

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"This is completely unacceptable and has to be complained about to North Lanarkshire Council".

Yeah – it's not to be complained about, unless you wanted a well-deserved clip on the ear.

While it may justly be complained — as always — that Hepburn is too much Hepburn, by now that very fact adds to our emotion.

He didn't mention the landlords of the buildings, Sally thought, who were probably getting away with substandard wiring, as well as with epidemics of cockroaches, bedbugs, not to be complained about by the deluded or the fearful poor.

This year's installment of summer will be followed by optional Pumpkin Spice Lattes, complaining about the (still optional) Pumpkin Spice Lattes, and then three months of Christmas, which will also be complained about excessively.

“In justice to myself,” Custis wrote a shade defensively that spring, “I think I have spent my time in a manner not to be complained of.” Washington was not complaining; he even acknowledged that he could detect a noticeable improvement in his ward’s writing.

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I don't want to be complaining.

No one will be complaining.

But why should Dell be complaining?

No photophobia or phonophobia was complained.

A month later, odynophagia was complained.

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