How to Use complainant in a Sentence

complainant

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  • 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
  • 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 complainant said the woman just walked toward the Gulf gas station.
    — cleveland, 14 May 2021
  • The complainant, police learned, has a son with the younger woman’s father.
    — cleveland, 5 Mar. 2021
  • At some point, the complainant said Spacey opened his arms, motioning for the complainant to give him a hug.
    — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 10 July 2023
  • The complainant said the suspect fell on the ground two times before entering his car to drive away.
    — cleveland, 12 Nov. 2022
  • The complainant called dispatch a third time but did not want to speak with an officer.
    — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 29 July 2023
  • Each complainant is seeking damages and to remove the other from the board.
    — Alexandra Bruell, WSJ, 29 July 2022
  • One side or the other, the owner or the complainant, will wind up mad at the end of every transaction.
    — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 15 Mar. 2021
  • He was charged with rape in 1980, but the charges were dropped after the complainant declined to testify.
    — Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2021
  • The responding officer met with the complainant who caught the dog.
    — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 14 June 2021
  • All four complainants are unnamed in this case, as is their right under British law.
    — Zoe Glasser, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
  • The radio report said a white male had stumbled into the complainant’s yard and shots were fired.
    — al, 27 Jan. 2022
  • But Graves said the complainants often do not want the case to be prosecuted.
    — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The complainant was advised that this is a civil matter.
    — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The complainant reported that a man ran by her in one of the garages and grabbed her wristlet purse before running away.
    — Bruce Geiselman, cleveland, 7 Aug. 2022
  • The unnamed complainant and her family moved out of the motor home park in August.
    — Tat Bellamy-Walker, NBC News, 8 July 2022
  • The complainant had left the keys in the car, according to a police incident report.
    — cleveland, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Someone broke into the complainant’s car overnight Sept. 16.
    — cleveland, 25 Sep. 2022
  • The park district was made aware of the relationship on Aug. 26 by a third-party complainant.
    — Alice Yin, chicagotribune.com, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Of the nine complainants, six did not want to speak publicly about their allegations.
    — Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The complainant was unable to give a specific time frame when the damage had occurred.
    — Hank Beckman, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2022
  • On 19 May, checks were also made to verify the identity of the complainant.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 July 2023
  • The complainant described the culprit as a black Mustang car with orange stripes and named a street where the person may reside.
    — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 22 July 2023
  • The investigator will also go over the process with the complainant.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The complainant bought a pool table from a seller on the west side of Cleveland through Facebook Marketplace.
    — Bruce Geiselman, cleveland, 14 May 2022

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