Sample Sentences for
carp
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carp as in:  carped incessantly

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    Another reason I welcome the change is that Mama's always carping at me, especially at the table.  (source)
    carping = repeatedly complaining about unimportant things
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    Lucky he's in Alaska and not sitting right here carping about everything that went wrong today.  (source)
    carping = repeatedly complaining
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    As we got into his car, he let me know he was aware of all the carping going on behind his back.  (source)
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    He appeared frail and stupid to me, a man made of dried twigs with a thin, carping voice.  (source)
    carping = nagging
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    The Hiroshima players were at first called, in English, the Carps, until he pointed out to the public that the plural for that fish, and for those ballplayers, had no "s." He went often to watch games at the huge new stadium, not far from the A-Bomb Dome — the ruins of the Hiroshima Industrial Promotion Hall, which the city had kept as its only direct physical reminder of the bomb.†  (source)
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    I may carp about feeling cornered by Nathaniel, as is my right as a curmudgeonly columnist, but there's nothing boring about the adventure I'm on.  (source)
    carp = repeatedly complain
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    Hall carped that the Americans were "violating the spirit of the hills" and practicing a shameful form of alpine extortion, but Jim Frush, the unsentimental attorney who was the leader of the American group , remained unmoved.  (source)
    carped = repeatedly complained
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    The carping had subsided, he wrote, but few of the carpers had as yet made the "amende honorable" that now clearly was due Chicago.  (source)
    carpers = complainers
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    His look went from brooder's beard to carper's skull, to remind, to chide them not unkindly, then to the baldpink lollard costard, guiltless though maligned.†  (source)
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    The Morrison children, coming home from school, would find no aches, no carping, no headache.  (source)
    carping = nagging or repeatedly complaining
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    With him disappeared the secret of stuffed carps.†  (source)
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    For I would have you know, Sir Errant, that in these little villages everything is talked about and everything is carped at, and rest assured, as I am, that the priest must be over and above good who forces his parishioners to speak well of him, especially in villages.  (source)
    carped = repeatedly complained
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    Some notorious carpers and squeamish moralists might be sulky with Lord Steyne, but they were glad enough to come when he asked them.†  (source)
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meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus

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    Licked all the shells clean and couldn't have cared less that Brian was thrashing around in the water like a dying carp.  (source)
    carp = a common freshwater fish
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    Japanese carp.  (source)
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    In all it was a pitiful display of small bream and carp, falling apart at the seams.  (source)
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    There were no other fish in the lake except for perch and a few worthless carp.  (source)
    carp = a common freshwater fish
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    Technically speaking, the pond should be full of carp, but Hiro is American enough to think of carp as inedible dinosaurs that sit on the bottom and eat sewage.  (source)
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    My beloved Mississippi River was being eaten in reverse by Asian carp flip-flopping their way up toward Lake Michigan.  (source)
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    He talks on the phone for a bit, and then he comes back into the kitchen and sees that his little sister has a big hunk of raw Lake Michigan carp in her hand, and she's chewing, and she looks up at her brother and says, 'Sushi!'  (source)
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    There was a tapering soot stain as high as a man on an outside wall where two tramps had once, outrageously, lit a bonfire to roast a carp that was not theirs.  (source)
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    The wives, homesick and bewildered, turn to Ashima for recipes and advice, and she tells them about the carp that's sold in Chinatown, that it's possible to make halwa from Cream of Wheat.  (source)
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    Technically speaking, the pond should be full of carp, but Hiro is American enough to think of carp as inedible dinosaurs that sit on the bottom and eat sewage.  (source)
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    Ashima sets out paper plates that have to be tripled to hold the weight of the biryani, the carp in yogurt sauce, the dal, the six different vegetable dishes she'd spent the past week preparing.  (source)
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