How do you use Griping in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like colic or gripes, plus the exact meaning.
Griping meaning
present participle and gerund of gripe
Using Griping
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of gripe
- Useful related words include: colic, intestinal colic, gripes, pain.
- In the example corpus, griping often appears in combinations such as: griping about, griping that.
Context around Griping
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 10 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Griping
- In this selection, "griping" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, councils, indoors, message, suspiciously and particularly stand out and add context to how "griping" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include are still griping as though and busch was griping about the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "griping" sits close to words such as aaaa, abductees and abdulahi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with griping
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Yet people are still griping as though he’d irresponsibly scarpered. (11 words)
Next, there’s a blind item about a newcomer causing some problems and griping about a storyline. (17 words)
We don’t need to hear the griping of glorified cops — the same people for locking disabled incarcerated Utahns in on them. (22 words)
But as the company’s streaming project gets ready for launch, agents and producers can’t stop griping about how “difficult” Apple is to deal with — citing a “lack of transparency,” “lack of clarity” and “intrusive” executives, including CEO Cook. (40 words)
Trump claimed member nations had agreed to significantly boost their defense budgets and reaffirmed — after days of griping that the U.S. was being taken advantage of by its allies — that the U.S. remains faithful to the accord. (39 words)
Still, opposition griping—particularly from Tories—began to focus on the notion that Trudeau and Freeland had failed in their highly touted strategy of managing and mitigating the obvious threat Trump posed to vital Canadian trade interests. (37 words)
Example sentences (14)
The reforms got bogged down in terrible PR, with councils griping suspiciously about autonomy, and perceived indigenous Maori ‘co-governance’ rhetoric raising some heckles too.
We don’t need to hear the griping of glorified cops — the same people for locking disabled incarcerated Utahns in on them.
When a major snowstorm hits Ottawa, most residents retreat indoors, griping about the weather and the heaping piles of snow they'll soon have to shovel.
But Trump has been unable to stay on message, griping about Harris’s crowd sizes, attacking her mixed race heritage and calling the former California attorney general stupid.
My favorite complaint is Hoosiers driving to Chicago from their tiny town then griping that there are too many other people on the roads.
Busch was griping about the aero package within the first 10 laps Saturday night, but he was still near the front before his pit-road miscue dropped him from contention.
But as the company’s streaming project gets ready for launch, agents and producers can’t stop griping about how “difficult” Apple is to deal with — citing a “lack of transparency,” “lack of clarity” and “intrusive” executives, including CEO Cook.
Next, there’s a blind item about a newcomer causing some problems and griping about a storyline.
Whether the bartender failed to smile enough, the bathroom lacked the properly scented soaps or the parking lots proved too far away to navigate, some people won’t think twice about griping.
Yet people are still griping as though he’d irresponsibly scarpered.
First Star Wars: The Last Jedi, with a certain sect of viewers griping that bold vision had taken the galactic franchise in the wrong direction.
I grumbled about the weight, but realized Wright couldn’t hear me any more than Tamilee Webb could hear me griping through a “Buns of Steel” VHS tape in the 1990s.
Still, opposition griping—particularly from Tories—began to focus on the notion that Trudeau and Freeland had failed in their highly touted strategy of managing and mitigating the obvious threat Trump posed to vital Canadian trade interests.
Trump claimed member nations had agreed to significantly boost their defense budgets and reaffirmed — after days of griping that the U.S. was being taken advantage of by its allies — that the U.S. remains faithful to the accord.
Common combinations with griping
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: