| 1. | In complement extern, 'tis not long afte. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 2. | But the ship, having her full complement of seamen, spurned his suit and not all the King his father's influence could prevail. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 3. | and his predecessors and he saw that the complement was not half empty. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 4. | In like manner, the Greenland whalers sailing out of Hull or London, put in at the Shetland Islands, to receive the full complement of their crew. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 5. | There was a full complement of passengers on board, among them English, many Americans, a large number of coolies on their way to California, and several East Indian officers, who were spending their vacation in making the tour of the world. - from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne |
| 6. | The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital. - from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels |
| 7. | But this state of things finds its complement in the practical absence of the family among the proletarians, and in public prostitution. - from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels |
| 8. | But this complement may be much inferior to what, with other laws and institutions, the nature of its soil, climate, and situation, might admit of. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 9. | It had, perhaps, even long before his time, acquired that full complement of riches which the nature of its laws and institutions permits it to acquire. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |