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Example sentences for: spat

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Washington enjoys nothing so much as a cat fight between friends, and last week's spat between Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist and the Republican Senate was a doozy.
This is the most noxious formulation, slung as an insult by hawks such as the Weekly Standard and the Wall Street Journal . "This man who is engaged in this massive ethnic cleansing," Standard publisher Bill Kristol spat on This Week --"We're going [to]cut another deal with him?
was a penny-pincher, and Indians soon spotted — and spat out — its raw London gin tinctured with iodine to imitate French brandy.
Ten years ago, both these stories would have launched full-dress feeding frenzies, which as likely as not would have chewed up successful politicians and spat them out onto the refuse heap.
Thank you, both for proving the necessity of the feminist enterprise and for providing a powerful commentary on the sad position of contemporary feminism by publishing Herbert Stein's awful fancies ("Watching the Couples Go By") in the same cyberspace as that spat between Susan Faludi and Karen Lehrman ("Revisionist Feminism").