COMPLICATION in a Sentence

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126 example sentences for COMPLICATION, such as:
1. The problems grew complicated beyond all reason.
2. To keep the peace, was an increase of complication.
3. A complicated system of sewers runs under the city.
4. The human brain is an incredibly complicated organ.
5. The presence of an armed gang added a major complication.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of COMPLICATION
complication
 n.  puzzling complexity
 n.  a situation or condition that is complex or confused
Classic Sentence: (84 in 6 pages)
1  To keep the peace, was an increase of complication.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
2  When facts, the premonitory symptoms of latent social malady, move heavily, the slightest complication stops and entangles them.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS
3  Natural and commonplace as this matter of marrying is, the banns to publish, the papers to be drawn up, the mayoralty, and the church produce some complication.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833
4  After the Armistice he tried frantically to get home but some complication or misunderstanding sent him to Oxford instead.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
5  He thought not of his wife, but of a complication that had arisen in his official life, which at the time constituted the chief interest of it.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 14
6  Her first movement was one of annoyance: this unforeseen act of Selden's added another complication to life.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
7  He was neither a peasant tailor, a potential artist, a social complication, nor a peril.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
8  He and Mr. Elsing are under arrest for complicity in a Klan raid at Shantytown tonight.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
9  On the same day it was given out that fresh documents had been discovered which revealed further details about Snowball's complicity with Jones.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
10  There had been no open complicity between mother and daughter, no open understanding but, though people in the house began to talk of the affair, still Mrs. Mooney did not intervene.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
11  He had, or thought that he had, a connivance, one might almost say a complicity, of events in his favor, which was equivalent to the invulnerability of antiquity.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LAC...
12  been arrested and tortured for his alleged complicity in the.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX — THAT ONE SHOULD AVOID BEING DESPISED AND HA...
13  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
14  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
15  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
Example Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
1  The age difference was a complication to the rela-tionship.
2  Another complication was the excess of imports over exports.
3  The fact that the plane was late added a further complication to our journey.
4  The presence of an armed gang added a major complication.
5  What is the most common complication after laparoscopic surgery?
6  You cannot keep your complicity in this affair secret very long; you would be wise to admit your involvement immediately.
7  Recently a number of policemen were sentenced to death for their complicity in the murder.
8  What he was saying was so complicated that I lost track after the first couple of sentences.
9  The form was terribly complicated and I had a lot of trouble with it.
10  The problems grew complicated beyond all reason.
11  The human brain is an incredibly complicated organ.
12  A complicated system of sewers runs under the city.
13  This is further complicated by the above-mentioned color changes that occur with growth.
14  The situation is complicated by the fact that I've got to work late on Friday.
15  The plot was too complicated for me I couldn't follow it.