How to Use complainant in a Sentence

complainant

noun
  • Florida was one of the top five states with the most complainants.
    Chabeli Herrera, orlandosentinel.com, 19 July 2019
  • The complainants would not be required to keep a log of barking incidents.
    Paulina Pineda, azcentral, 13 July 2019
  • The complainant was able to get the cart and items back, but the suspects drove off in a car before police could arrive.
    Bruce Geiselman, cleveland.com, 21 July 2019
  • The complainant said Halderman appeared to her to be drunk, the news release said.
    Fox News, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Under the city's current rules, all three complainants must appear in court and keep logs with dates and times of barking incidents.
    Paulina Pineda, azcentral, 13 July 2019
  • Police contacted the neighbor and advised her to cease contact with the complainant.
    Cheryl Higley, cleveland.com, 13 July 2019
  • The man told police that the main suspect is a man, 57, the boyfriend of his mother, who lives with the complainant and his mother.
    cleveland.com, 3 July 2019
  • During this time, the police department will not be accepting walk-in complainants or safe exchanges.
    baltimoresun.com, 5 July 2019
  • During this time, APD will not be accepting walk-in complainants or safe exchanges.
    baltimoresun.com, 28 June 2019
  • The case was turned over to the university's in-house disciplinary board, where the vote was 3-2 in favor of the complainant.
    Alaa Abdeldaiem, SI.com, 28 July 2019
  • No one saw or heard anything to corroborate the primary complainant’s account.
    Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Councilman Brian Byrd served as complainant in the proceedings and was not allowed to vote.
    Jeff B. Flinn, ExpressNews.com, 21 Aug. 2019
  • One certainty: This proposal is unlikely to please complainants.
    Mark Bergen, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2019
  • The board did not identify the complainant, but the description of the allegations mirrors what Wheeler had written.
    Brian Schwartz, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The impact of the crash caused the complainant's Hyundai Sonata to spin and hit a sign.
    Taylor Pettaway, ExpressNews.com, 18 Jan. 2021
  • The complainant last used the gun at a sportsman’s club Nov. 5.
    Kaitlin Edquist, chicagotribune.com, 20 Nov. 2020
  • The school only shared the outcome of the case with the one complainant, the swimmers said.
    Rachel Axon, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2020
  • The complainant slammed and locked their front door and called police.
    Kaitlin Edquist, chicagotribune.com, 14 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • The complainant did not seek charges, but asked police to issue a warning to the man.
    Eddie Morales, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2020
  • 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 school closed the case without sharing the outcome with any of them beyond the one complainant.
    USA Today, 17 Apr. 2020
  • The complainant said the woman just walked toward the Gulf gas station.
    cleveland, 14 May 2021
  • The complainant realized something was wrong and did not cash the check.
    Bruce Geiselman, cleveland, 8 Aug. 2020
  • The complainant, police learned, has a son with the younger woman’s father.
    cleveland, 5 Mar. 2021
  • But the feds didn’t interview Cuomo or apparently any of the complainants.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 5 Feb. 2024

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