How to Use complicated in a Sentence

complicated

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  • The game's rules are too complicated.
  • The machine has a complicated design.
  • We’ve been trained that leading is complicated, messy, and hard.
    — Amy Leschke-Kahle, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Things get complicated and reinforcements are sent from the capital to solve the case.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2024
  • For a crypto-naive institution that wants to reap the rewards of staking’s high yields, the process can be quite complicated.
    — Ben Weiss, Fortune Crypto, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The rules around evictions and tenant protections are complicated and can be difficult for even lawyers to understand.
    — Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Another big change is that today’s trials are much more complicated, especially in early stages.
    — Erica Goode, STAT, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Understanding the benefits and drawbacks of AI partners is a bit more complicated.
    — Marco Dehnert, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The relationship between Adam Smith’s two great books is famously complicated.
    — Yuval Levin, National Review, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Each identity sets a complicated infinite sum equal to a complicated infinite product.
    — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The calculus of carrying out virtual layoffs is complicated.
    — Taylor Telford, Washington Post, 11 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 | [email protected], 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

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