How to Use complicated in a Sentence

complicated

adjective
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  • The game's rules are too complicated.
  • The machine has a complicated design.
  • Trusts tend to be more complicated than wills, and often cost more to create.
    — The Motley Fool, Dallas News, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The awkwardness and grief are so much more complicated than if Sam had just moved to a new town.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2024
  • That only one turbine was damaged suggests the answer is more complicated than a single large wind gust.
    — Karl Ebert, Journal Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The Google ad platform has gotten so complicated, with many pitfalls and a lack of handling bot traffic.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
  • But the rebels who now control Syria have a complicated past and offer an unpredictable future.
    — Rob Picheta, CNN, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Advertisement Georgiana is the most complicated of the bunch.
    — Susan Coll, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Many Millennials have already climbed part of the corporate ladder, which can make leaving feel riskier or more complicated for them.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, WWD, 10 Dec. 2024
  • This is where Hera leads the resistance, which is a complicated matter considering her own history with Wulf.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 9 Dec. 2024
  • The author also shares his account of the complicated history of baking fundamentals like sugar, flour, and vanilla.
    — The Bon Appétit and Epicurious Staffs, Bon Appétit, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Some, like comedy kingpin Chuck Lorre, have more complicated deals that may eclipse those of the mega-earners due to back-end compensation terms for shows that perform well.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
  • But things get complicated when York and the spirit haunting her — known as Nolan Callahan in his days among the living — begin to feel a spark of romance between them.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
  • So, the road here has been a long, messy, complicated one.
    — Marc Wortman, Rolling Stone, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Add pets to the equation and the process gets even more complicated.
    — Colleen Grablick, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2024
  • The film opens with a quite complicated shot, and the dog in it was just like Orson Welles.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Some of the old rules still stand, but scoring in the sport is more complicated now.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 27 June 2024
  • This is a dense, complicated novel, not one to speed through on a two-hour flight.
    — Shawna Seed, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • But the 27-year-old Cortez couldn’t shake a feeling that the party felt complicated this year.
    — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2023
  • In it, mothers and daughters look back at the complicated legacies that linger across the decades.
    — Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Costs on larger and more complicated roofs can be two to three times that.
    — Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2024
  • But as Perkins shows, the reasons for those low test scores are far more complicated.
    — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 May 2023
  • At the heart of it is this woman who is complicated and messy and stubborn and super smart.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 15 Aug. 2024
  • So that is the complicated knot that the Israeli Defense Forces find themselves in.
    — CBS News, 19 Nov. 2023
  • There’s intrigue, a complicated love story, and, of course, plenty of spicy scenes in the mix.
    — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 5 May 2023
  • The drawings are fun but not overly complicated, and there are quite a few coffee recipes to test out as well.
    — Nykia Spradley, Glamour, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The world’s most complicated watch made by Vacheron Constantin.
    — Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 15 Apr. 2024
  • EBird is complicated to use but Cornell has a free online course to get the most from its features.
    — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
  • The big farewell episode finds Gibbs untangling a complicated case that takes him to Alaska.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024
  • We’ve been trained that leading is complicated, messy, and hard.
    — Amy Leschke-Kahle, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023

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