Sentence examples for complaining like from inspiring English sources

"complaining like" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe the manner in which someone is complaining. Here is an example: He was complaining like a child about having to stay home on a Saturday.

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I hear all these parents complaining, like, "Oh, my kid wakes me up at 6".

"It sounds awful complaining like this because in lots of way they were good," Mrs. Rayner said.

It was not a brilliant summer, even if some of the more dyspeptic complaining, like the novelist and screenwriter Joe Queenan's apocalyptic late-July rant in The Wall Street Journal, might seem exaggerated.

So what does big name complaining like this mean for the industry, especially during E3 season?

By complaining like a brat on Twitter, in the middle of the tournament no less, it becomes that much harder to be a supportive fan.

Even though there are people complaining, like 'Oh I can't afford my house in Victoria anymore' [laughs].

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Negotiating with Trump surely is, as Schumer complained, like trying to handle Jell-O.

"They complain like crazy," he said of his riders, particularly those who travel from the financial district and Midtown.

You may complain like hell about it, but in the end you like it because it preserves your oligopolistic position.

The big chocolate industrialists, he complained, like Nestlé, Kraft Foods, the maker of Toblerone, and Suchard, "employ only one argument: price.

A successful day in the library is one where people complain, like they would with any other local authority service.

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