How to Use complacent in a Sentence

complacent

adjective
  • We have grown too complacent over the years.
  • The strong economy has made people complacent.
  • We can't afford to be complacent about illiteracy.
  • Some can get charged up, others can get complacent, others could feel defeated.
    Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 17 Aug. 2024
  • There’s also the prospect that investors get complacent and begin to take the current bull market for granted.
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 24 June 2024
  • Hunting challenges our complacent conviction that the world is human-made.
    Anchorage Daily News, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Their optimism should not make Ukraine’s backers complacent.
    Suriya Jayanti, TIME, 10 Aug. 2024
  • Europe’s politicians seem complacent in confronting these issues.
    Washington Post, 2 July 2019
  • Europe, it is said, is too divided, complacent and weak to wield power decisively.
    The Economist, 25 July 2019
  • The review board’s significant work is not, however, an excuse to grow complacent.
    Frederick Davie, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Investors have become way too complacent and way too dependent on monetary policy.
    Erik Sherman, Fortune, 15 July 2019
  • As companies become complacent and stagnant, this opens up opportunities for their competitors to pass them by.
    Kate Vitasek, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Not complacent with the three-goal lead, Spain kept Poland goalkeeper Grabara busy throughout the second half, prompting more impressive saves.
    SI.com, 23 June 2019
  • Advocates have made the case that governments have grown complacent in the face of increasingly dire evidence from scientists that the world needs to move rapidly toward clean energy.
    NBC News, 23 Aug. 2019
  • The English aristocrats were arrogant, complacent about their constitution and unwilling to think freshly about most things.
    Gordon S. Wood, Washington Post, 2 July 2024
  • 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

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