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.
• 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
• And too many of us have become complacent and inured to the misery all around us.
  — Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, 13 July 2019
• Impressionism can seem the most benign, the most complacent, the most cliched of art styles.
  — Washington Post, 7 July 2022
• Both Fauci and Wen, however, said that this is not the time to get complacent.
  — Terry Ward, CNN, 5 Nov. 2020
• The days of being complacent with going five innings need to end.
  — Jeff Bailey, The Denver Post, 14 Aug. 2019
• But some had warned that the country had become complacent.
  — Fox News, 12 Aug. 2020
• Grow too slow and people get complacent, but grow too fast and people get burned out.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
• We’ve just got to keep pushing and keep fighting — can’t get complacent.
  — Susan Miller Degnan, miamiherald, 22 Oct. 2017
• Dunne said foreign carmakers, which have seen China as a profit machine, were complacent and had been caught out by the speed of change.
  — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 13 Aug. 2024
• The current environment is similar to what existed during previous collapses, Taleb said, pointing to complacency in the market is complacent and the earlier era of low rates that taught people to avoid conservative investments.
  — Jason Ma, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024