Example sentences for: quarrel

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

  • The reason: an abstruse quarrel over abortion funding.

  • Indignant Joyceans also quarrel with Rose for fiddling with Joyce's use of dialect (substituting "Cor blimey" for "God blimey") and slicing the "Oxen of the Sun" chapter into 11 separate sections.

  • One could quarrel with occasional entry choices: Steinberg David, Canadian comedian, actor , is in but not Saul Steinberg, the artist, who is far better known-- at least in some circles; we find Ralph Waite, US actor, but not Terry Waite, British hostage; Sir John Hicks, English economist who won a Nobel prize, is in, but Edward, the American painter, is more important.

  • When Kincaid finds out that Drew is ill (the news comes from a family friend, since she and her mother are in the middle of a months-long quarrel and have stopped speaking), she flies to Antigua to visit him and to offer help.

  • One might quarrel with an occasional comment (like, [The Techne ] might be said to have become the basis of every Greek textbook that schoolboys, in England and elsewhere, would face until the year 1000, which must have encompassed a relatively small number), but such are few and far between in the earlier chapters of the book.


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