Example sentences for: quibble

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

  • 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.

  • In the merest quibble, the word limbeck ( Macbeth , I, 7) is missing from Professor Spevack's compendium, although it appears to be standard usage in most editions of Macbeth.

  • OK, allow me this one quibble: As you know, I'm of the school that says politicians are only good for one thing: Entertainment value.

  • It concluded, "When the alternative is the unthinkable, it is churlish to quibble over dates, venues and terms of reference."

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


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