How to Use complacent in a Sentence

complacent

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• We have grown too complacent over the years.
• The strong economy has made people complacent.
• We can't afford to be complacent about illiteracy.
• The coaching/conditioning staff has seemed complacent over the years.
  — NOLA.com, 6 June 2017
• Pimco has a warning for investors: Don’t get complacent.
  — Erin Roman, Bloomberg.com, 31 May 2017
• Not being complacent about life, which can lead to boredom, improves cognitive function too.
  — Nancy Mattia, NBC News, 21 May 2017
• The Fed’s plan for gradual rate increases is starting to look complacent, and there is a strengthening case for a faster pace of hikes.
  — Bloomberg.com, 11 May 2017
• Energy analysts have questioned whether oil markets are being too complacent about the risks of a widening conflict in the Middle East.
  — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2024
• Even after a glut of media reports last year on the publication of an alarming book that exposed a rampant practice of fake fish being sold as real fish, complacent consumers are still being duped.
  — Winston Ross, Newsweek, 23 May 2017
• This installment follows its own rhythm, with digressions and backstories that allow viewers to see even more of the characters’ worlds without ever seeming complacent.
  — Laura Bradley, HWD, 12 May 2017
• This is also a prime reason investors remain complacent concerning China risk, perhaps dangerously so.
  — Leland R. Miller and Derek Scissors, WSJ, 16 Apr. 2017
• That's great, but now is not the time for the rest of us to get complacent.
  — Heather Hansman, Outside Online, 29 Jan. 2021
• The maps were still close in these matchups, so the Empire can’t get complacent against a strong team.
  — Sean Collins, Dallas News, 20 Aug. 2020
• The goal is to take the pressure off and not become too complacent.
  — Laura Berman, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2023
• In the meantime, though, the Sea Kings don’t expect to get complacent.
  — Matt Szabo, Daily Pilot, 27 Sep. 2017
• The Felix Project lamented that now is not the time for the country to get complacent.
  — Amy Nguyen, Forbes, 25 June 2021
• To be 5-0, that's a good start, but not being complacent is the hardest thing for guys not to do.
  — Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic, 11 Oct. 2021
• Clearly, the markets have been quite complacent about the Fed.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 25 Jan. 2022
• But no one should feel complacent that this work is done.
  — CBS News, 21 Jan. 2024
• Somewhere in the middle of the game, Rupp warned his guys to not become complacent.
  — Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 12 May 2018
• The cost of college is not an excuse to get complacent.
  — Kabir Rao, Fox News, 6 Feb. 2023
• Still, this is not a time to grow complacent, Sillett says.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2023
• But even with those blowout wins, the team is mindful of not getting complacent ahead of the playoffs.
  — Lila Bromberg, Hartford Courant, 13 Aug. 2022
• That in no way means the game and people behind it should or have grown complacent.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2023
• But the stock market is as complacent as most consumers seem to be.
  — Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2023
• Democrats might be feeling complacent with their party in control of the White House, the House and the Senate.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2021
• The last couple of years have taught us that such thinking was, at best, complacent.
  — SI.com, 15 Oct. 2019
• Life has thrown too much at me to ever get bored or complacent.
  — Jenn Pelly, Vulture, 17 May 2024
• MilkWood chef Glenn Dougan isn't one to be complacent in his work.
  — Nancy Miller, The Courier-Journal, 19 June 2018
• People may be more complacent about diseases such as measles and polio, Conway said.
  — Sarah Volpenhein, Journal Sentinel, 11 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 31 Dec 2024