GRIPE in a Sentence

Learn GRIPE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for GRIPE, such as:

1. He keeps griping about having no money.
2. Joe came in griping about how cold it was.
3. Her main gripe is that she's not being trained properly.
4. He is jealous of the truncheon which he holds in his trembling gripe, and he knows thou stretchest thy bold hand towards it.

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 Meanings and Examples of GRIPE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
gripe
 n.  vulture; griffin; fast hold with the hand or arms; close embrace; grasp; clutch
Classic Sentence:
1  But, as he proceeded, a terrible fascination, a kind of fierce, though still calm, necessity, seized the old man within its gripe, and never set him free again until he had done all its bidding.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
2  In fine, Hester Prynne resolved to meet her former husband, and do what might be in her power for the rescue of the victim on whom he had so evidently set his gripe.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
3  My eye rose to his; and while I looked in his fierce face I gave an involuntary sigh; his gripe was painful, and my over-taxed strength almost exhausted.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
4  He is jealous of the truncheon which he holds in his trembling gripe, and he knows thou stretchest thy bold hand towards it.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
5  "They mostly do," said the clergyman, griping hard at his breast, as if afflicted with an importunate throb of pain.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
Example Sentence:
1  Her main gripe is that she's not being trained properly.
2  He keeps griping about having no money.
3  Joe came in griping about how cold it was.
4  The e-mail change was first pointed out by bloggers over the weekend and publicized by media outlets Monday, leading to gripes from users, usually on their Facebook pages.