Example sentences for: quibbling

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

  • The rich and rewarding, and often necessary, sport of quibbling over words arose early in the questioning when Col.

  • Quibbling over such syntax may seem trivial, but language is so often a dormant phenomenon that it is worth tweaking its tail on occasion.

  • Now, "accurately" leaves room for quibbling, and a memoir will be understood by most readers to be offered on an "as remembered" basis.

  • Critics objected to the calculations, but the principle of thinking about safety in this way survives any quibbling about the numbers.

  • Quibbling additions and corrections: the mirrorreverse epitaph (p. 2) is anything but an illiterate endeavor, the letter forms being quite standard, the contents entirely normal.


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