Example sentences for: spat

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

  • The palms are said to have grown from stone spat out by Arab pirates during the first millennium, but today’s crops are not edible.

  • He coughed harshly and spat copiously on the ground.

  • A spat broke out this week between gun-nut Charlton Heston and yentl case Barbra Streisand over the N.R.A.

  • The Wall Street Journal predicted that the spat will blow over when Lee steps down in eight months.

  • The real worry about the Secret Service is not, as the privilege spat suggests, that the president has too much control over it.


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