How to Use complainant in a Sentence

complainant

noun
  • You could be stuck in your legalese and call them a complainant.
    — Elizabeth Kiefer, Glamour, 30 May 2018
  • The complainant has since died and police have ruled out charges.
    — Time, 23 Mar. 2021
  • The complainant slammed and locked their front door and called police.
    — Kaitlin Edquist, chicagotribune.com, 14 Dec. 2020
  • There was no contact with the complainant.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The complainants are calling for all three.
    — Austin Hornbostel, Nashville Tennessean, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Florida was one of the top five states with the most complainants.
    — Chabeli Herrera, orlandosentinel.com, 19 July 2019
  • The new charges bring the total number of complainants to six.
    — Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 23 Dec. 2025
  • That was a blow to the complainant, who did not want the matter to go forward.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Three counts of rape relate to a second complainant.
    — Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The complainant said the gun might have been a BB or pellet gun.
    — Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2017
  • The complainants were reluctant to go on the record and the matter went nowhere.
    — Ana Claudia Chacin, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The complainants were reluctant to go on the record and the matter went nowhere.
    — Ana Claudia Chacin, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The complainant called dispatch a third time but did not want to speak with an officer.
    — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 29 July 2023
  • The complainant did not seek charges, but asked police to issue a warning to the man.
    — Eddie Morales, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2020
  • The complainant realized something was wrong and did not cash the check.
    — Bruce Geiselman, cleveland, 8 Aug. 2020
  • As for the gunshots, a bullet hole was found in the siding of the complainant's home.
    — Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • The school only shared the outcome of the case with the one complainant, the swimmers said.
    — Rachel Axon, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2020
  • The bulk of the complainants didn't even attend the same school as the student in question.
    — Nico Lang, Marie Claire, 7 June 2017
  • All four complainants are unnamed in this case, as is their right under British law.
    — Zoe Glasser, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
  • The complainant, police learned, has a son with the younger woman’s father.
    — cleveland, 5 Mar. 2021
  • The impact of the crash caused the complainant's Hyundai Sonata to spin and hit a sign.
    — Taylor Pettaway, ExpressNews.com, 18 Jan. 2021
  • The subject had keys to all of the complainants’ cars, which the complainant said had been inside the home.
    — Kaitlin Edquist, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2021
  • He has been instructed not to contact the complainant.
    — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Each complainant is seeking damages and to remove the other from the board.
    — Alexandra Bruell, WSJ, 29 July 2022
  • The complainant said the suspect fell on the ground two times before entering his car to drive away.
    — cleveland, 12 Nov. 2022
  • The school closed the case without sharing the outcome with any of them beyond the one complainant.
    — USA Today, 17 Apr. 2020
  • The complainant said the woman just walked toward the Gulf gas station.
    — cleveland, 14 May 2021
  • The radio report said a white male had stumbled into the complainant’s yard and shots were fired.
    — al, 27 Jan. 2022
  • The complainant said her neighbor threw the door at her car, then wandered behind the building.
    — Bruce Geiselman, cleveland, 20 June 2020
  • The complainant was a co-worker of the officer, the release said.
    — Ruth Ann Krause, Post-Tribune, 22 June 2017

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