How to Use complainant in a Sentence

complainant

noun

• Police said the suspect assaulted the complainant by spitting into his face.
  — Prescotte Stokes Iii, star-telegram, 7 Mar. 2018
• The number and nature of the charges, which involve multiple complainants, haven’t been disclosed.
  — Robb M. Stewart, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
• Johnson stipulated that Bennett is to have no contact of any kind with the complainant.
  — Les Bowen, Philly.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• Kaepernick, as is his right as the complainant, attended the deposition.
  — Aaron Wilson, Houston Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018
• Others were instructed to find damaging information on complainants as a pretext for firing them.
  — Alexandra Berzon, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2018
• Like most departments, Weitekamp said Illinois would withhold the name of the complainant, but the harasser's name would be released.
  — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 24 Apr. 2018
• The complainant in Brookfield said in order to enter the polling room, voters had to pass by a bake-sale table in the hallway, which was not set up beyond the entrance to the polling room.
  — Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2018
• Instead, the jurors focused on evidence like security camera footage that showed the complainant and Mr. Khan walking back to her dorm room.
  — New York Times, 9 Mar. 2018
• When superiors are confronted with reports of bad behavior, the complainants, mostly women, are disbelieved, demoted or fired.
  — Christina Jewett, chicagotribune.com, 25 Mar. 2018
• The complainants in these scenarios came forward as part of the #MeToo movement, in which women who always had brushed aside (but never forgotten) such treatment gained the courage to come forward.
  — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 31 Mar. 2018
• One complainant reported that his form was rejected because of employer ineligibility while his co-worker’s was approved a week later.
  — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
• The impact of the crash caused the complainant's Hyundai Sonata to spin and hit a sign.
  — Taylor Pettaway, ExpressNews.com, 18 Jan. 2021
• The complainant last used the gun at a sportsman’s club Nov. 5.
  — Kaitlin Edquist, chicagotribune.com, 20 Nov. 2020
• You could be stuck in your legalese and call them a complainant.
  — Elizabeth Kiefer, Glamour, 30 May 2018
• The school only shared the outcome of the case with the one complainant, the swimmers said.
  — Rachel Axon, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2020
• The complainant slammed and locked their front door and called police.
  — Kaitlin Edquist, chicagotribune.com, 14 Dec. 2020
• That was a blow to the complainant, who did not want the matter to go forward.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Nov. 2021
• The complainants were reluctant to go on the record and the matter went nowhere.
  — Ana Claudia Chacin, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2024
• The complainant has since died and police have ruled out charges.
  — Time, 23 Mar. 2021
• The subject had keys to all of the complainants’ cars, which the complainant said had been inside the home.
  — Kaitlin Edquist, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2021
• Florida was one of the top five states with the most complainants.
  — Chabeli Herrera, orlandosentinel.com, 19 July 2019
• The complainant did not seek charges, but asked police to issue a warning to the man.
  — Eddie Morales, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2020
• Officers dispensed advice to the owner of the birds and to and the complainant.
  — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 17 Mar. 2022
• Three of the complainants accused Spacey of groping them.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 26 July 2023
• The school closed the case without sharing the outcome with any of them beyond the one complainant.
  — USA Today, 17 Apr. 2020
• The complainant said the woman just walked toward the Gulf gas station.
  — cleveland, 14 May 2021
• The complainant realized something was wrong and did not cash the check.
  — Bruce Geiselman, cleveland, 8 Aug. 2020
• The man told police that the main suspect is a man, 57, the boyfriend of his mother, who lives with the complainant and his mother.
  — cleveland.com, 3 July 2019
• The complainant wrote that Grayson directed his comments toward the teenage girl, not at him.
  — Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2024
• One complainant claimed she was pulled over in June by a man fitting Dambowsky’s description.
  — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024