GRIEVANCE in a Sentence

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For GRIEVANCE, below is one of 23 sentences:
No, no, he obviously wasn't an Englishman: the wrong sort of flattish, pale face and bearing; and the wrong sort of grievance.

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 Meanings and Examples of GRIEVANCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
grievance
 n.  a complaint or a strong feeling caused by unfair treatment
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  Perhaps Zeena had failed to see the new doctor or had not liked his counsels: Ethan knew that in such cases the first person she met was likely to be held responsible for her grievance.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
2  But nothing should come out; and happily for his side of the case, the dirty rags, however pieced together, could not, without considerable difficulty, be turned into a homogeneous grievance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
3  She simply left the brunt of the situation on her husband's hands, as if too absorbed in a grievance of her own to suspect that she might be the object of one herself.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
4  He was the sort of man the bosses like to get hold of, the sort they make it a grievance they cannot get hold of.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
5  The friend, with a grievance in his eye, went to the youth.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
6  No, no, he obviously wasn't an Englishman: the wrong sort of flattish, pale face and bearing; and the wrong sort of grievance.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
7  He had a grudge and a grievance: that was obvious to any true-born English gentleman, who would scorn to let such a thing appear blatant in his own demeanour.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
8  "Barrymore considers that he has a grievance," he said.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
9  The old well-established grievance of duty against will, parent against child, was the cause of all.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
10  Neither of them gave full utterance to their sense of grievance, but they considered each other in the wrong, and tried on every pretext to prove this to one another.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 23
11  My grievance is purely personal, and turns on two great misfortunes which have fallen upon my house.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK II
12  He hung his grievances on her, as one hangs a coat on a hook, instinctively.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
13  Mrs. Norris could not speak with any temper of such grievances, nor of the quantity of butter and eggs that were regularly consumed in the house.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
14  There was one circumstance in the history of her grievances of particular irritation.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
15  Mrs. Bennet had many grievances to relate, and much to complain of.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
Example Sentence:
1  When her supervisor ignored her complaint, she took her grievance to the union.
2  There must be an opportunity for both sides to air their grievances.
3  These interviews aim to deal with individual grievances.
4  He brayed out his grievances before the judge.