How to Use complicated in a Sentence

complicated

adjective

• The game's rules are too complicated.
• The machine has a complicated design.
• But it’s not yet known whether there’s a limit to how varied and complicated these patterns can get.
  — Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 11 Nov. 2024
• The reality is a bit more complicated than a pure yes or no answer.
  — WIRED, 19 Mar. 2023
• And now, any potential sale looks even more complicated than before.
  — David McCabe, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• While this may be commonplace nowadays, the history of green beer is more complicated than most may think.
  — Phillip Nieto, Fox News, 17 Mar. 2023
• But while the method is similar, applying this tech to blood glucose is much more complicated.
  — Victoria Song, The Verge, 18 Mar. 2023
• This is partly complicated by the free-market dispensary system in which patients are free to buy any product.
  — Nerd Wallet, oregonlive, 16 Mar. 2023
• Despite the advanced nature of these topics, the talks were neither too complicated nor pedestrian.
  — Jessica Hullinger, theweek, 27 Nov. 2024
• This is really not that complicated: Pundits establish what should be, while citizens try to make the best of what is.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 17 Mar. 2023
• Plans were made even more complicated by the weather — Northern California had a rare flash flood alert on Nov. 22.
  — Ana Calderone, People.com, 28 Nov. 2024
• And ownership of commercial aircraft is also highly complicated.
  — Jerrold Lundquist, Forbes, 27 Nov. 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
• 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

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024