How to Use kvetch in a Sentence

kvetch

verb
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  • They're always kvetching about something.
  • Sometimes the best way to handle an annoyance, to truly get over it, is to kvetch about it.
    — Kelcie Pegher, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Even so, there were complaints, especially by the Italians, who kvetched about not being able to take walks.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Given how people like to kvetch on social media, that side effect could very well seem like it’s occurring in a lot more than one out of 18 patients.
    — Rachel Gutman, The Atlantic, 26 May 2022
  • And despite kvetching constantly about the 2015 Iran deal, the president has now twice certified that Iran is in compliance with it.
    — Joshua Keating, Slate Magazine, 22 Aug. 2017
  • By all the evidence, Roth loved to talk, or more specifically kvetch, about writing (or more specifically about trying to write).
    — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 23 May 2018
  • Sitting in the back of the classroom full of kids a quarter his age, Jay kvetches about how Odysseus is a lying adulterer, Telemachus an obedient weakling, and Homer simply wrong about love, war and justice.
    — Giancarlo Buonomo, New Republic, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Everyone likes to kvetch about traffic and driving conditions, but drivers in some cities have far fewer complaints.
    — USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2017
  • Dhruv Agarwal, who owns an online gourmet accessories business called TrueBrands, was kvetching about the challenge of finding warehouse space.
    — Spencer Soper, Bloomberg.com, 11 May 2017
  • Residents have formed protest groups, lobbied city and state representatives, gone to court, sold their homes and moved—and even created a high-tech tool for kvetching, enabling them to register thousands of complaints at the click of a button.
    — Katy McLaughlin, WSJ, 5 July 2018
  • According to family lore, Clara Glimcher followed him into the recruiting office, kvetching that her son was about to ship off to Parris Island and leave his poor mother behind.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Residents’ kvetching about horns seemed to invoke discourse on disorderly behavior.
    — Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 26 May 2023
  • They're always kvetching about something.
  • Sometimes the best way to handle an annoyance, to truly get over it, is to kvetch about it.
    — Kelcie Pegher, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Even so, there were complaints, especially by the Italians, who kvetched about not being able to take walks.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Given how people like to kvetch on social media, that side effect could very well seem like it’s occurring in a lot more than one out of 18 patients.
    — Rachel Gutman, The Atlantic, 26 May 2022
  • And despite kvetching constantly about the 2015 Iran deal, the president has now twice certified that Iran is in compliance with it.
    — Joshua Keating, Slate Magazine, 22 Aug. 2017
  • By all the evidence, Roth loved to talk, or more specifically kvetch, about writing (or more specifically about trying to write).
    — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 23 May 2018
  • Sitting in the back of the classroom full of kids a quarter his age, Jay kvetches about how Odysseus is a lying adulterer, Telemachus an obedient weakling, and Homer simply wrong about love, war and justice.
    — Giancarlo Buonomo, New Republic, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Everyone likes to kvetch about traffic and driving conditions, but drivers in some cities have far fewer complaints.
    — USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2017
  • Dhruv Agarwal, who owns an online gourmet accessories business called TrueBrands, was kvetching about the challenge of finding warehouse space.
    — Spencer Soper, Bloomberg.com, 11 May 2017
  • Residents have formed protest groups, lobbied city and state representatives, gone to court, sold their homes and moved—and even created a high-tech tool for kvetching, enabling them to register thousands of complaints at the click of a button.
    — Katy McLaughlin, WSJ, 5 July 2018
  • According to family lore, Clara Glimcher followed him into the recruiting office, kvetching that her son was about to ship off to Parris Island and leave his poor mother behind.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Residents’ kvetching about horns seemed to invoke discourse on disorderly behavior.
    — Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 26 May 2023

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