How to Use complication in a Sentence

complication

noun
  • The patient died of complications from surgery.
  • The negotiations stalled when complications arose.
  • She experienced complications during her pregnancy.
  • Pneumonia is a common complication of AIDS.
  • At the end of the day, there are a lot of complications.
    Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2023
  • These complications extend to the fate of the school building.
    Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2023
  • In some ways, this was their home or their home away from home, and still have that sense of complication.
    Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Nicole Hazen passed away last year at the age of 45 from complications due to glioblastoma.
    Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2023
  • The point is instead to dive into the muck of that complication.
    K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Just as was the case for the Utes in the Pac-12, there are complications involved in that, some of them natural, most of them man-made.
    Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 July 2023
  • At least seven people in the U.K. alone had died of the complication.
    Roxanne Khamsi, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2022
  • The early season heat wave in the West is causing complications up and down the coast.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 16 May 2023
  • One complication of the slew of requests is how widely records laws vary from state to state.
    Amy Gardner and Patrick Marley, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Charny died from complications of a stroke this January at the age of 95.
    Sabrina Souza, CNN, 1 June 2023
  • Young children have high rates of complication from the flu.
    al, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Newell said the death, in a hospital, was from complications of heart surgery.
    Clay Risen, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2023
  • And then there's the complication of the way society works during these times.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Marred by a long series of complications, the project was never built.
    Fred A. Bernstein, New York Times, 12 June 2024
  • Heather Jessup, a friend, said the cause was complications of cancer.
    Neil Genzlinger, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2023
  • Kobe Kyrie Theard, 9, died last month from health complications.
    William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 9 May 2023
  • Here’s what borrowers need to know to prepare ahead of time and avoid complications.
    Valeria Olivares, Dallas News, 15 June 2023
  • The cause was complications of kidney disease and Alzheimer’s disease, said his wife, the artist Martha Posner.
    Penelope Green, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • That complication alone shouldn't scuttle the deal, though.
    Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The overall argument was the same, just with a new layer of complication.
    Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Too much heat in the body can quickly lead to complications like heat exhaustion.
    Umair Irfan, Vox, 17 June 2024
  • In her 2019 Post interview, Kizer did not shy away from the complications in her case.
    Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 17 Feb. 2024
  • In time, the currents of complication that Frank described became his book’s virtue.
    Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The cause of his death, at a memory care center, was complications of Alzheimer’s disease, said his son, Bill Dischinger.
    Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • However, a myriad of complications has kept him out of action.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
  • This urine build-up can cause an infection or other complications, Golan said, adding that removing the prostate can prevent these blockages from happening.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024

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