Example sentences for: squabble

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

  • But something is being overlooked in the privilege squabble: other complicated, delicate, and even more important questions about the Secret Service.

  • McLaughlin displayed a statistic claiming the sanctions had contributed to the deaths of as many as 1.4-million Iraqi civilians since the end of Gulf War I. That, of course, set off a squabble about the validity of the numbers and a fumbling calculus of how many lives had been saved from chemical and biological warfare by keeping Saddam "in his box" since 1990.

  • An article says his daughter Tina and wife Barbara will squabble over his $200 million estate.

  • And even on Kosovo, a topic you wouldn't think Israelis could disagree about, they are managing to squabble, revealing a peculiar ambivalence about this black-and-white issue.

  • A case in point occurred for me when I was exchanging some gossip about a local family squabble over property with the same Hispanic lady who figures in my first two anecdotes.


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