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Example sentences for: spats

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The staffs of other magazines have spats; we wear them.
I've been involved in a few spats with the Motley Fools over the years, writing stories that I thought were models of judicious balance, only to have all manner of insult hurled upon me, so I guess I'm particularly sensitized to the food-fight aspect of the Internet.
The most brutal internecine spats took place in New York City in the 1930s.
His nomination had been held up for 14 months, first on ethics questions and then because of spats between the GOP and the White House.
I hadn't thought about The New New Thing in those terms, since it seemed to me that even though Clark had spats with various people--and even though he looked at money people, in particular, as vermin--all of them, even the vermin, were his co-conspirators.