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Example sentences for "griping"

Lexicographically close words:
grins; grip; gripe; griped; gripes; gripings; gripman; grippe; gripped; gripper
  1. Then came a griping frost and a hard sky, with slight breeze and a quiet sea.

  2. Are we meaner or more griping than the Americans?

  3. The disease is accompanied with much nervous prostration, and is distinguished by severe pains in the abdomen of a griping nature, followed by frequent scanty and bloody stools, and much straining.

  4. Carminatives are medicines which allay intestinal pain, arrest or prevent griping caused by cathartics and exert a general soothing effect.

  5. Colic is a term applied to griping pains in the abdomen, which are sometimes accompanied with nausea and vomiting.

  6. This answer smelt of profit, and did gain 3010 The abbot's liking, and his griping crew.

  7. It is an admirable corrective of flatulence; and yields an essential oil, of which from two to four drops taken on a lump of sugar will promptly relieve griping of the bowels with distension.

  8. The name comes from tormina, which signifies such griping of the intestines as the herb will serve to relieve, as likewise the twinges of toothache.

  9. Being so aromatic and comfortably stimulating, the fruit is commended for aiding the digestion of savoury pastry, and to correct the griping tendencies of such medicines as senna and rhubarb.

  10. Men essentially griping and unscrupulous often do make the care for their family an apology for their sins against the world.

  11. The root is a pungent anti-spasmodic in colics and griping of the bowels.

  12. Toward six in the afternoon, griping and cutting internal to the umbilicus with nausea, afterward vomiting of acid water and at the end a little food, with twisting pains in the vertex and temples; dryness of the mouth with much thirst.

  13. Griping in the abdomen, extending down into the rectum, with a feeling as if this organ was ligated; she feels so weak that she has to support herself to keep from falling, with cold sweat in the face, lasting half an hour.

  14. A griping sensation in the region of the umbilicus extending to the spine.

  15. Hard dreams about fighting, quarreling; restless and tossing over; joints of the fingers lame; griping pains in the lungs(?

  16. After breakfast, between nine and ten o'clock, griping and drawing with crawling in the stomach, which extends into the chest and between the shoulders, causing oppression of the chest with a sense of heat.

  17. But the latter are much more violent in their action, producing a degree of griping and irritation which is dangerous in febrile cases.

  18. It has been shown that resins are difficult of absorption; and whether they be absorbed or not, we know that they must irritate the intestinal surface, from the violent griping which often attends their operation.

  19. As a medicine it acts as a gentle diuretic and aperient, and is valued for correcting the griping properties of senna and resinous purgatives.

  20. Thus, the adjuvant may also act as a corrigent, as when the addition of soap to aloes, or to extract of jalap, lessens their griping properties, and at the same time promotes their action.

  21. And first, a griping in my vitals did put me in mind that we could not live on guava apples and water alone, but must have more solid victuals to strengthen us against the hardships of traveling in the desert that lay before us.

  22. And the heart is glad within us that he biddeth us rejoice: Yet the thing shall be seen but seldom that a Niblung fares from his land With eyes by the gold-lust blinded, with the greedy griping hand.

  23. That griping knight Sir Thomas must be call'd With the same lure: he knows t' a crumb how much Loss is in twenty dozen of bread, between That which is broke by th' hand and that is cut.

  24. I am content to do so: you shall find Nor me nor my husband carry a griping mind.

  25. Atli has sent me hither on his errand riding on a bit-griping steed, through the unknown Murkwood, to pray you, Gunnar!

  26. The warriors made their bit-griping steeds over the mountains fly, through the unknown Murkwood.

  27. And so stood a while with his face hidden in his griping hands.

  28. Very still she stood, looking upon his bent head, saw the quiver of his lips, and the griping of his strong hands.

  29. Yet still he stood with bent head, his griping fingers clenched hard upon the chair-back, while the clamor about him grew ever louder and more threatening.

  30. Twice he struggled up, but was beaten down again, --down and down into a choking blackness that seemed full of griping hands and cruel, trampling feet.

  31. Thus, in a while, the griping fingers fell away, the Viscount stepped back, and groaning, bowed his head.

  32. The first striking instance of this close and griping spirit appeared upon an occasion which seldom fails to open, in Ireland at least, all the warm and generous impulses of our mature.

  33. Honora and Connor did what in them lay to make the dependents of the family experience as little of Fardorougha's griping tyranny as possible.

  34. In this garb he set out with a crook-headed staff, into which long use, and the habit of griping fast whatever he got in his hand, had actually worn the marks of his forefinger and thumb.

  35. Now it so happened that this alcalde was one of the most overbearing, and at the same time most griping and corrupt curmudgeons in all Granada.

  36. As he was seated one evening at the door of his hovel, he was accosted by a rich old curmudgeon, who was noted for owning many houses, and being a griping landlord.

  37. And therefore pacify thyself, and do not so torment Thyself in vain: I must seek some means for to eschew These griping griefs, which unto me I see now imminent; And therefore will no longer stay, but bid thee now adieu.

  38. His shoulder proudly eminent and sharp Was with a sinner charg'd; by either haunch He held him, the foot's sinew griping fast.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "griping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acute; agonizing; atrocious; beef; bitch; bite; biting; colicky; complaining; complaint; cramp; cranky; crick; cruel; disappointed; discontented; disgruntled; displeased; dissatisfied; dissent; distressing; envious; excruciating; gnawing; grave; grievance; gripe; groan; grouse; grousing; grumbling; hard; harrowing; harsh; hitch; holler; howl; hurtful; hurting; kick; kink; malcontent; murmuring; muttering; nip; painful; pang; paroxysm; peevish; petulance; petulant; piercing; pinch; poignant; prick; protest; pungent; querulous; racking; rebellious; resentful; restive; restless; scolding; seizure; severe; sharp; shoot; shooting; spasm; spasmodic; squawk; stab; stabbing; stinging; stitch; thrill; throbbing; throes; tormenting; torturous; tweak; twinge; twitch; unaccommodating; uneasy; unfulfilled; ungoverned; unhappy; unsatisfied; whining; wrench; yapping