How to Use complicated in a Sentence

complicated

adjective
  • The game's rules are too complicated.
  • The machine has a complicated design.
  • But as Perkins shows, the reasons for those low test scores are far more complicated.
    Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 May 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
  • Breaking up is hard to do, and handling the frenzy of complicated emotions that come with it can be rough.
    Leah Campano, Seventeen, 4 May 2023
  • One day, Qin would like to return to building more complicated watches.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 12 Oct. 2024
  • Weisz: Technically, the scenes where the twins were touching each other were very complicated.
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Apr. 2023
  • These days, crypto fraud is more complicated, involving multiple types of currencies, each with its own blockchain.
    David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
  • This might be a little complicated, but there is this method of reversing samples, chopping and splicing which is commonly used among songwriters a lot.
    Michelle Hyun Kim, Rolling Stone, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The most complicated part of the installation is connecting a small Bluetooth antenna and sticking it to the back of the console, which seems easy enough.
    Andrew Liszewski, The Verge, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Something to simplify the complicated and complicate the simple.
    Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2023
  • Leading a sustainable lifestyle doesn't have to be super intimidating or overly complicated, though.
    Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 26 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Ramses—who comes from Venezuela, which has a long and complicated history with American intervention—has a harsher view of the military.
    Judy Berman, TIME, 9 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • His role fit in with Thorne’s to give Auburn a dynamic athlete down in the tightest part of the field where throwing is complicated.
    Matt Cohen | McOhen@al.com, al, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The dungeons in Echoes start simply and grow longer — though not more complicated — as the game continues.
    Felecia Wellington Radel, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2024
  • That’s why the relationship between the father and the son in the film is so delicate and so complicated and so weird.
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2024
  • However, if there is a cycle in the network, computer scientists call it a recurrent neural network, and the arrangements of neurons can be more complicated than in feedforward neural networks.
    Ambuj Tewari, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2024

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