How to Use complicated in a Sentence

complicated

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  • The game's rules are too complicated.
  • The machine has a complicated design.
  • So, the road here has been a long, messy, complicated one.
    — Marc Wortman, Rolling Stone, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Add pets to the equation and the process gets even more complicated.
    — Colleen Grablick, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2024
  • The film opens with a quite complicated shot, and the dog in it was just like Orson Welles.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2024
  • It's been a long and complicated journey for the Guardians — and for Gunn.
    — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Some of the old rules still stand, but scoring in the sport is more complicated now.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 27 June 2024
  • This is a dense, complicated novel, not one to speed through on a two-hour flight.
    — Shawna Seed, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Add dragons to the mix and things get even more complicated.
    — Carson Blackwelder, Country Living, 14 Dec. 2022
  • But the 27-year-old Cortez couldn’t shake a feeling that the party felt complicated this year.
    — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2023
  • In it, mothers and daughters look back at the complicated legacies that linger across the decades.
    — Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Costs on larger and more complicated roofs can be two to three times that.
    — Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2024
  • The awkwardness and grief are so much more complicated than if Sam had just moved to a new town.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2024
  • But as Perkins shows, the reasons for those low test scores are far more complicated.
    — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 May 2023
  • At the heart of it is this woman who is complicated and messy and stubborn and super smart.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 15 Aug. 2024
  • So that is the complicated knot that the Israeli Defense Forces find themselves in.
    — CBS News, 19 Nov. 2023
  • There’s intrigue, a complicated love story, and, of course, plenty of spicy scenes in the mix.
    — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 5 May 2023
  • As simple as that was, the assist to Reeves was even less complicated.
    — Ryan Black, The Courier-Journal, 25 Jan. 2023
  • But putting a price tag on the content used to train AI models is a daunting and complicated task.
    — Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The drawings are fun but not overly complicated, and there are quite a few coffee recipes to test out as well.
    — Nykia Spradley, Glamour, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The world’s most complicated watch made by Vacheron Constantin.
    — Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 15 Apr. 2024
  • EBird is complicated to use but Cornell has a free online course to get the most from its features.
    — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
  • Trusts tend to be more complicated than wills, and often cost more to create.
    — The Motley Fool, Dallas News, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The big farewell episode finds Gibbs untangling a complicated case that takes him to Alaska.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024
  • We’ve been trained that leading is complicated, messy, and hard.
    — Amy Leschke-Kahle, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Breaking up is hard to do, and handling the frenzy of complicated emotions that come with it can be rough.
    — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 4 May 2023
  • When ice and shipping are added to the equation, that becomes even more complicated.
    — Julia Moskin, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2023
  • But researchers say the picture could be a lot more complicated.
    — Byjennifer Couzin-Frankel, science.org, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Although these big chip platforms are complicated to make, Nvidia can apply lessons learned from the Blackwell ramp to future product iterations.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2025
  • With triads, one dropout will force you into more complicated rematching.
    — Kevin Kruse, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025

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