Sentence examples for carp on the from inspiring English sources

Nor can business leaders merely carp on the sidelines.

So, thousands of Czechs like Mr. Vondracek, 24, an economics student, find a few days' work each December bashing carp on the street.

Other contestants range from an ex-convict to an unhappy sales executive, but "lacking any narrative rhythm, the film flops around like a carp on the kitchen floor" (A. O. Scott).

Lacking any narrative rhythm, the film flops around like a carp on the kitchen floor, jumping from scene to scene, from musical number to emotional confrontation, before you can figure out what's going on.

While some have the fish vendors butcher the carp on the spot, the more entertaining tradition is taking the carp home live and letting it swim around in the bathtub until it's time to prepare the meal, served on Christmas Eve.

Every 80 years or so these economic cataclysms occur, vindicating the Left who carp on the sidelines during soaring markets, waiting for a collapse since wealth and power are never voluntarily given up.

To carp on like this is to risk coming across as the sort of irredeemable character who recurs in James Murphy's lyrical vignettes ("But have you seen my records? This Heat, Pere Ubu, Outsiders, Nation of Ulysses ... ..)... ..

I'd lay odds that a 30-year-old man would hear far less carping on the subject.

Trump, as the Party's schoolyard bully, carps on the habit constantly, and recently mailed Rubio a case of Trump-branded water.

She also warns that a Jeremy Corbyn victory in the UK contest could reduce Labour to "carping on the sidelines" for years.

Bake! Skate!" howls frontman Zac Carper on the 99-second opening track from their 2011 EP DIYDUI, before proclaiming himself phoneless, jobless, without a life, and perpetually stoned.