How to Use grievance in a Sentence

grievance

noun
  • She has been nursing a grievance all week.
  • Several customers came to the front desk to air their grievances.
  • He has a deep sense of grievance against his former employer.
  • In the petition, the students listed their many grievances against the university administration.
  • The pitch starts with a grievance.
    — Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 23 June 2026
  • From time to time, these grievances boil over.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Petkis filed a union grievance against the town to get her job back.
    — Ken Byron, Courant Community, 21 June 2017
  • Go ahead and pick one of those for your grievance, or go off the menu.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2021
  • This, of course, will keep the league away from what could be a raft of grievances.
    — Albert Breer, SI.com, 24 May 2018
  • The union has filed a grievance over the matter.
    — ABC News, 10 Apr. 2026
  • But grievance cannot be the endpoint.
    — Jonathan Alpert, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Aiyuk hasn’t said what his exact grievance is.
    — Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 10 June 2026
  • That type of grievance wouldn’t have much traction in court.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Slow progress on that system was among the town’s grievances.
    — State House News Service, Boston Herald, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Uber at the time also had amassed a long list of public grievances.
    — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2018
  • But for a brief time, we were too focussed on our own racial grievances to see past them.
    — Beth Lew-Williams, New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2025
  • And the men and women who surround him feast on their own grievance.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2022
  • At its core, the grievance is over the wrong listing of a player.
    — Jim Owczarski, Cincinnati.com, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Can’t wait for the airing of grievances when the Colts get here.
    — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2018
  • Fans of some of these characters may have their own grievances.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026
  • He is consumed with grievance, and the man is out for unchecked power.
    — ABC News, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Thus grief was joined by grievance, the coin of the social media realm.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 31 Jan. 2020
  • But the epistolary style of the book is used not to dish dirt or list grievances.
    — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Shapiro cannot file a grievance against the dean because he has not been punished.
    — John Hasnas, National Review, 16 Feb. 2022
  • The country felt unified in its grievances against the regime.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
  • His speeches skew dark and grievance-ridden, even in the best of times.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2020
  • That’s bigger than my grievance — but my grievance is still there.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Not a random killing at all, but that hasn’t stopped these vendors of grievance.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Players would've needed to waive the right to file for a grievance against the league.
    — Bobby Nightengale, Cincinnati.com, 23 June 2020
  • This vision was guided by two deep grievances.
    — Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026

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