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- v. Simple past tense and past participle of complain.
Examples
“After police pursued the Jeep and it crashed, Hamlin complained of neck and back pain, D.C. police said.”
The Washington Post: Slain AU professor's Jeep found; driver arrested
“You forgot to mention that, when McCain complained about how he'd never seen such a terrible thing before in the Senate, Senator Carl Levin pointed out that the ten-minute rule had been enforced just a few hours earlier that very day.”
“McCain complained that while every single major reform bill that's been passed in the history of this country has been bipartisan ... there's no bipartisanship here.”
“Charles Darwin complained quite crossly in his autobiography that, despite many denials, people still kept saying he thought natural selection was the sole cause of evolutionary development.”
A valuable onslaught on neo-Darwinist simplicities « Anglican Samizdat
“I love scare tactics by lawyers and Palin complained about all the money wasted on disproving ethics charges, who's wasting money now???”
“The modeltestants headed to the beach, where Erin complained that it was deserted.”
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“Note that this article says that McCain complained-an objective article would not have used that negative term.”
“In an e-mail to the Daily Caller, Palin complained about a Politico article relying on - horror!”
The Washington Post: The last mulligans for Christine O'Donnell and Alvin Greene?
“When McCain complained about special deals in a Senate health care reform bill that passed in December and criticized Obama for going back on a pledge to keep negotiations open, Obama shot back: "The election's over.”
“Mr. MUSTAFA HUSSEIN: (Foreign language spoken) NELSON: Hussein complained that other leaders just talk.”
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Verbs describing speech. We are all tired of He said, She said. Here are some alternative verbs.
stated, declare, state, assert, affirm, air, articulate, deliver, describe, clarify, elucidate, enunciate and 19 more...
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Instead of "Said"
breathed, mumbled, murmured, persuaded, sighed, slurred, stammered, squeaked, whispered, argued, barked, bellowed and 20 more...
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