Example sentences for: fractious

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

  • The reports agree that this a key victory for House Speaker Denny Hastert, who cajoled his fractious and narrow majority--including a cadre of moderates skittish about using so much of the surplus for tax cuts--into supporting the legislation.

  • The South China Morning Post said that the offer "gives Turkey another chance to deal with its largest and most fractious minority in a reasonable way.

  • Instead of a tightly disciplined cartel administering prices to a supine world market, OPEC more closely resembles a fractious trade association struggling to bring supply in line with demand even as its efforts are sabotaged by its own members.

  • The LAT goes with the fractious Republican caucus he will try to lead, which the WSJ also addresses in a front-pager.

  • The editorial described India as "an overpopulated country with a fractious, hungry population, an unstable government, and age-old hatred with its neighbours" and said "the world has good reason to be nervous" about that country's new nuclear capabilities.


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