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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "griping" in a sentence

    griping example sentences

    griping


    1. Aldous emerged, smiling at Kira’s old lady griping


    2. Griping his shirt with both hands, she just stood there trembling in his arms


    3. Anti-inflammatory, sedative and eases griping pains


    4. I didn‘t pay any attention to her or even to hear what she was griping about


    5. They were just griping, mostly


    6. Sure, there will be some griping from people who are harmed by specific projects, but it will average out, or—like the car inspection—we can modify the project to give less harm to those paying the costs, if we have particular sympathy for their circumstances


    7. This is so out of character for them that it seems almost impossible, but apparently they even assist in the most mundane and distasteful of labors with as much stoic military discipline as any commander could ask! Imagine Dark Dragons expending their flame in flaring latrine pits! I would have thought that any of them would gladly die before submitting to such malodorous drudgery, but our witnesses have seen it with their own eyes, and reported that it was accomplished with no more griping and complaint than one would expect from any other soldiers!


    8. was by his side griping his wrist with his left hand and hitting the man’s elbow with his right


    9. There are just one lunch buddy and a couple of neighbors to hang around griping and bitching with


    10. Yes, she told some of us one day when there was some griping about student loans and grants

    11. After first griping about being kept back and about Steve breaking the rules by not taking his GPS device he phoned his line manager to get his instructions as to what to do for the best


    12. The shadow of the head and body moved, its arms slightly away from its body, griping the edge of the stone


    13. He became aware that he was griping the arm rests as he twisted the Velcro sleeves he had put on the grips to prevent him from accidentally touching the Kelvan interface during the battle


    14. When he wasn’t doing that he could be found in the break room griping about how little of a severance he was going to get


    15. ‘Could it be cholera? Oh, my Provider! What shall I do?’ Minutes later he began to vomit severely… it was so unnerving for him as this was the first time that he had vomited so forcibly, and the griping pains in his intestines showed no signs of easing


    16. indulgent exercise in griping about the past (an issue I’ll deal with


    17. Tracy Munroe had had a belly full of the griping between the captain and the commander


    18. Majorities quickly get tired of listening to any minority griping and whining about what happened to them in them in the past


    19. “They mostly do,” said the clergyman, griping hard at his breast as if afflicted with an importunate throb of pain


    20. He suffered less from the deadly griping of his bowels than from the thought that she might hear them bubbling

    21. If no reactions such as soreness to the mouth, repeated belching, nausea, sickness, stomach pains, griping pains in the lower abdomen or any other distressing symptoms are experienced, you may consider the plant safe


    22. It is well known to your committee, and to the whole nation, that the far greater part of the officers were compelled by hard necessity to dispose of their commutation certificates at prices infinitely below their nominal amount; that this did not proceed from want of patriotism, of which they had beforehand given proofs most unequivocal, or of want of confidence in their Government; but that, after having spent the vigor of their manhood in the service of their country, they returned to the walks of civil life, (many of them maimed, and scarcely able to halt along,) ignorant of what was passing or likely to pass in the councils of their country; the griping hand of poverty bore hard upon them; and, unacquainted as they necessarily were with civil affairs, they fell an easy prey to the wiles of the artful and insidious speculator, who was lying in wait to fatten upon their hard earnings


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    Synonyms for "griping"

    colic gripes griping intestinal colic

    "griping" definitions

    acute abdominal pain (especially in infants)