Sentence examples for complaining tone from inspiring English sources

But to go further on this theme would ruin a few jokes, as well as leading me back toward the sour, complaining tone of the first paragraph.

This time, the woman gave a long answer in a complaining tone, in which she pointed several times at the sky and several times at her children.

"You have reached the top of the Miss America mountain," Mrs. Shermer said in a complaining tone, "so we're making you almost inaccessible, because all good businessmen put their most valuable belongings in a safe place".

He searched the Sunday-magazine pullouts for pictures of himself, and when he found one he said in a mildly complaining tone, "Look at this, why should they turn businessmen into celebrities?" Yet he would not wear the same suit to two events because of the newspaper photographers.

The BSC received 16 complaints from viewers complaining about the tone of the coverage.

In refusing, Mr Kasparov adopted a high-minded tone, complaining that a new chess autocrat was dumping a glorious tradition.

Increasingly, as he noted today, voters have been showing up at his rallies complaining of the tone of the race, and most particularly about calls from pollsters seeking to tarnish Mr. McCain.

He interrupted their questions to complain, in tones rising nearly to a shout, that these allegations were "sprung" on him at the last minute, or to ask them forlornly if they also liked beer.