How to Use grievance in a Sentence

grievance

noun
Definition of grievancenext
Synonyms for grievancenext
  • 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 grievances could lead to giant penalties for the city.
    — Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2018
  • Go ahead and pick one of those for your grievance, or go off the menu.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2021
  • Petkis filed a union grievance against the town to get her job back.
    — Ken Byron, Courant Community, 21 June 2017
  • When things fall apart, we get stuck in the grievance of the moment.
    — Jodi Ettenberg, CNN, 29 Jan. 2022
  • Can’t wait for the airing of grievances when the Colts get here.
    — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2018
  • At its core, the grievance is over the wrong listing of a player.
    — Jim Owczarski, Cincinnati.com, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Players would've needed to waive the right to file for a grievance against the league.
    — Bobby Nightengale, Cincinnati.com, 23 June 2020
  • This, of course, will keep the league away from what could be a raft of grievances.
    — Albert Breer, SI.com, 24 May 2018
  • And the men and women who surround him feast on their own grievance.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Uber at the time also had amassed a long list of public grievances.
    — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Many of the same grievances are held by the women on the alternate squads that do not cheer.
    — Juliet MacUr, New York Times, 31 May 2018
  • Thus grief was joined by grievance, the coin of the social media realm.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 31 Jan. 2020
  • There was a river of grievance waiting to come out now.
    — Sana Krasikov, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Lee filed a grievance to call out the issues in the tenure review process.
    — Joshua Q. Nelson, Fox News, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Ellison would not describe the specifics of the grievance.
    — Claire Bryan, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Shapiro cannot file a grievance against the dean because he has not been punished.
    — John Hasnas, National Review, 16 Feb. 2022
  • His speeches skew dark and grievance-ridden, even in the best of times.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2020
  • The union could then file a grievance if the Dodgers suspend or bench Bauer.
    — Houston Mitchell Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2021
  • Both Kaepernick and Reid have filed grievances against the league.
    — Noel Harris, sacbee, 22 May 2018
  • But that would lead to even more ill feelings between the sides with a likely grievance filed by the union.
    — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 June 2020
  • The idea was to avoid a last-minute airing of grievances or insult that could cost him the election.
    — Ryan Teague Beckwith, Time, 23 Jan. 2018
  • The call angered many fans, who took to social media to air their grievances.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 24 May 2023
  • As a result, the right has turned to lesser sources for grievance-mining.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Not a random killing at all, but that hasn’t stopped these vendors of grievance.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2023
  • The union was capturing those grievances and putting those forward.
    — Aric Jenkins, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2020
  • This isn’t the first grievance filed against Barker-Groth.
    — Dallas News, 14 Feb. 2023

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