How to Use kvetch in a Sentence

kvetch

verb
  • They're always kvetching about something.
  • Edelman is struck — and perhaps a little soothed — by the amount of kvetching in the room.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Sometimes the best way to handle an annoyance, to truly get over it, is to kvetch about it.
    — Kelcie Pegher, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • And who among us is above some occasional kvetching about the season?
    — Charlotte Collins, Architectural Digest, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Of course, had it been nominated, there would have been plenty of kvetching.
    — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 July 2024
  • Even in this season of abundance, there are plenty of bona fide reasons to cry, complain and kvetch!
    — Jennifer Hubert Swan, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The movie simply wants to pay respect to their in-jokes and kvetching and observations.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Then in the final year of the decade, that changed, and a glut of anxious men arrived, kvetching, quipping and dating shiksas.
    — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Even so, there were complaints, especially by the Italians, who kvetched about not being able to take walks.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Taken by itself, this is all pretty innocuous kvetching about the creative process.
    — Aja Romano, Vox, 1 June 2024
  • Everyone likes to kvetch about traffic and driving conditions, but drivers in some cities have far fewer complaints.
    — USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2017
  • And this isn’t the same debate as those kvetching about Indiana and SMU earning at-large bids.
    — Justin Williams, The Athletic, 1 Jan. 2025
  • By all the evidence, Roth loved to talk, or more specifically kvetch, about writing (or more specifically about trying to write).
    — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 23 May 2018
  • Ashton, kvetching about his thyroid medication, fares somewhat better.
    — Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 2 July 2024
  • This possibility is playfully examined against a background of kvetching woe.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Some may kvetch at the idea of the 49ers giving up draft capital to acquire Hendrickson, who is 30 years of age and in the final year of his contract.
    — Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Residents’ kvetching about horns seemed to invoke discourse on disorderly behavior.
    — Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 26 May 2023
  • Blazy likes to remove himself from the studio for a few minutes between sessions, to allow the space to be reset and to give his design colleagues a chance to prepare, confer, or kvetch without him present.
    — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Dhruv Agarwal, who owns an online gourmet accessories business called TrueBrands, was kvetching about the challenge of finding warehouse space.
    — Spencer Soper, Bloomberg.com, 11 May 2017
  • And despite kvetching constantly about the 2015 Iran deal, the president has now twice certified that Iran is in compliance with it.
    — Joshua Keating, Slate Magazine, 22 Aug. 2017
  • Residents have formed protest groups, lobbied city and state representatives, gone to court, sold their homes and moved—and even created a high-tech tool for kvetching, enabling them to register thousands of complaints at the click of a button.
    — Katy McLaughlin, WSJ, 5 July 2018
  • Sitting in the back of the classroom full of kids a quarter his age, Jay kvetches about how Odysseus is a lying adulterer, Telemachus an obedient weakling, and Homer simply wrong about love, war and justice.
    — Giancarlo Buonomo, New Republic, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Considering how many sessions here have had creators kvetching about issues like payouts for them, the role of AI and, yes, dealing with platforms’ recommendation algorithms, attendees should have a lot to talk about.
    — Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 29 June 2024
  • Field’s neurotic, kvetching energy and Pullman’s drawlingly laidback presence spark off each other to amiable and spontaneous effect — enough so to show up the contrivances in the film’s secondary characters and subplots.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 7 May 2026
  • According to family lore, Clara Glimcher followed him into the recruiting office, kvetching that her son was about to ship off to Parris Island and leave his poor mother behind.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2019
  • That’s where three University of Iowa economists — Robert Forsythe, George Neumann and Forrest Nelson — met for food and beers and kvetching about just how badly the polls had missed the mark on the Michigan Democratic primary the day before, when Jesse Jackson absolutely trounced Michael Dukakis.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 21 June 2026

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