COMPLICATED in a Sentence

Learn COMPLICATED from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
126 example sentences for COMPLICATED, such as:
1. A flower has quite a complicated structure.
2. The problems grew complicated beyond all reason.
3. The human brain is an incredibly complicated organ.
4. A complicated system of sewers runs under the city.
5. Any other way would have been exceedingly complicated.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of COMPLICATED
complicated
 v.  make more complicated
 v.  make more complex, intricate, or richer
Classic Sentence: (84 in 6 pages)
1  Gradually the plans grew into a complicated mass of cranks and cog-wheels, covering more than half the floor, which the other animals found completely unintelligible but very impressive.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
2  Meanwhile, through the agency of Whymper, Napoleon was engaged in complicated negotiations with Frederick and Pilkington.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
3  By this difficult and complicated entrance, the good King Richard, followed by his faithful Ivanhoe, was ushered into the round apartment which occupies the whole of the third story from the ground.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
4  'It's much less complicated if one stays pure,' said Berry.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
5  She was angry, with the complicated and confused anger that made her inert.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
6  A series of attentions paid to her, and yet not to her but to some imaginary person, by the first man she had ever been inclined to adore, complicated her emotions indescribably.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face
7  A position which was not too simple when he stood whole-hearted had become indescribably complicated by the addition of Eustacia.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 4 An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness
8  In some ways they have within the last forty-eight hours become much clearer and in some ways they have become more complicated.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
9  It has been an exceedingly difficult and most complicated business.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13. Fixing the Nets
10  The case had been considerably complicated through the incident of the escaped convict and the relations between him and the Barrymores.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. A Retrospection
11  Any other way would have been exceedingly complicated.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
12  I had made myself the most complicated and the most hopeless trap that ever a man devised.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
13  I could see the many palps of its complicated mouth flickering and feeling as it moved.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In XI
14  Certain police officers have a peculiar physiognomy, which is complicated with an air of baseness mingled with an air of authority.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON
15  All at once they heard a rather complicated pealing from another bell.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVEN...
Example Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
1  What he was saying was so complicated that I lost track after the first couple of sentences.
2  The form was terribly complicated and I had a lot of trouble with it.
3  The problems grew complicated beyond all reason.
4  The human brain is an incredibly complicated organ.
5  A complicated system of sewers runs under the city.
6  This is further complicated by the above-mentioned color changes that occur with growth.
7  The situation is complicated by the fact that I've got to work late on Friday.
8  The plot was too complicated for me I couldn't follow it.
9  His love life was complicated, and involved intense relationships.
10  Working out the quantities of the ingredients involved some complicated maths.
11  Our lawyer guided us through the more complicated questions on the form.
12  A complicated string of chemical reactions leads to the end product.
13  A flower has quite a complicated structure.
14  The old system was fairly complicated whereas the new system is really very simple.
15  The company is double-teaming the more complicated jobs with both a group manager and a scientist.