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Example sentences for: contentious

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

In his latest book, Enduring Love , this struggle to make sense of misfortune is an explicit enterprise, a contentious necessity for the novel's three main characters.
But it was during the much feistier encounter on Meet The Press this morning--the most contentious of the primary debates so far--that Bradley finally came into his own.
"A break-up of Microsoft would be highly controversial and politically contentious, especially in the run-up to a presidential election," the paper said.
The most contentious issue was the establishment of a notification system for foods produced with genetically altered seeds.
Examples of this bread-and-butter work include highly contentious custody disputes, cases involving sub-standard housing and loss of shelter, and the loss of disability and other health benefits, to name a few.