Example sentences for: quibble

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

  • Just a small quibble with Sarah Kerr's review of Breaking the Waves ("Sex and Longing") . Kerr claims that Lars Von Trier's last film to reach American audiences was Zentropa , when (as the "Links" section at the bottom of the article correctly notes) Von Trier's last film to reach these shores was The Kingdom , a film which, while made for television, was given a theatrical release in the United States.

  • Prudie cannot quibble with you.

  • Judd Gregg, R-N.H., called Harkin's complaint a pointless distraction, and Barr dismissed it as a semantic quibble.

  • One linguistic quibble: the piece revives the old-fashioned term "white slave trade," which brings with it an unnecessary implication that slavery is a special insult to white women.

  • I thoroughly enjoyed reading "Unmitigated Gauls," Professor Krugman's interpretation of French elite thinking, but I would quibble with one point.


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