What is a sentence for the word carping?

since he was so carping when towards the media, this made the media hate him even more.

since he was so carping when towards the media, this made the media hate him even more.

he was so carping towards the media, thus, he was hated even more.

he was so carping towards the media, thus, he was hated even more.

His carping criticism of the book was upsetting to the author.