Example sentences for: cavil

How can you use “cavil” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • If I have one cavil with the book, it is that there is no conceivable reason for the subtitle to use an before historical.

  • Confronted with allegations about campaign-finance irregularities or with questions about her husband's business dealings, Ferraro has bobbed and weaved with Clintonian deftness: Hand out a few documents, hedge, cavil, deny, admit with explanation.

  • My only cavil is with the compositor's (editor's, and proofreader's) apparent ignorance of the accepted hyphenation of the word English : after, not before the -g-.

  • His style is light and entertaining, and I should be nitpicking at trifles were I to cavil at his rare sacrifices of accuracy for the sake of simplification.

  • But that is to cavil.


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