COMPLICATED in a Sentence

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126 example sentences for COMPLICATED, such as:

1. These events will greatly complicate the situation.
2. Any other way would have been exceedingly complicated.
3. 'It's much less complicated if one stays pure,' said Berry.
4. I do not wish to complicate the task more than is necessary.
5. Another complication was the excess of imports over exports.

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 Meanings and Examples of COMPLICATED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
complicated
 a.  difficult to analyze or understand
Classic Sentence: (84 in 6 pages)
1  Gradually the plans grew into a complicated mass of cranks and cog-wheels, covering more than half the floor, which the other animals found completely unintelligible but very impressive.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
2  Meanwhile, through the agency of Whymper, Napoleon was engaged in complicated negotiations with Frederick and Pilkington.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
3  By this difficult and complicated entrance, the good King Richard, followed by his faithful Ivanhoe, was ushered into the round apartment which occupies the whole of the third story from the ground.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
4  'It's much less complicated if one stays pure,' said Berry.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
5  She was angry, with the complicated and confused anger that made her inert.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
6  A series of attentions paid to her, and yet not to her but to some imaginary person, by the first man she had ever been inclined to adore, complicated her emotions indescribably.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face
7  A position which was not too simple when he stood whole-hearted had become indescribably complicated by the addition of Eustacia.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 4 An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness
8  In some ways they have within the last forty-eight hours become much clearer and in some ways they have become more complicated.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
9  It has been an exceedingly difficult and most complicated business.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13. Fixing the Nets
10  The case had been considerably complicated through the incident of the escaped convict and the relations between him and the Barrymores.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. A Retrospection
11  Any other way would have been exceedingly complicated.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
12  I had made myself the most complicated and the most hopeless trap that ever a man devised.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
13  I could see the many palps of its complicated mouth flickering and feeling as it moved.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In XI
14  Certain police officers have a peculiar physiognomy, which is complicated with an air of baseness mingled with an air of authority.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON
15  All at once they heard a rather complicated pealing from another bell.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVEN...
Example Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
16  Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
17  Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
18  Legally this is a hugely complicated case and it will take months for the judge to reach the verdict.
19  Miss Havisham kept her lawyers busy drawing up another codicil to add to her already complicated will.
20  This scarf is really simple and easy - but the wavy ribs cause the edges of the scarf to curve in and out, making it look more complicated than it is.
21  Two dimensional arrays are a little more complicated to use than previous ones.
22  You cannot keep your complicity in this affair secret very long; you would be wise to admit your involvement immediately.
23  Recently a number of policemen were sentenced to death for their complicity in the murder.
24  To complicate matters further , differences exist as regards legal systems, trade customs and language.
25  Any decision taken by them now, however well meant, could complicate the peace process.
26  I do not wish to complicate the task more than is necessary.
27  These events will greatly complicate the situation.
28  The soldier shot multiple times while defecting to the South is in a stable condition but riddled with parasites that could complicate his chances of survival.
29  The age difference was a complication to the rela-tionship.
30  Another complication was the excess of imports over exports.