Example sentences for: squabble

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

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

  • What better way to keep potential trouble-makers under his thumb than to coop them up at Versailles, and let them squabble for rights and privileges as futile as attending His Majesty’s awakening?

  • 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.

  • The characters squabble like siblings, jealous regardless of whether they have cause to be.

  • (Time Warner had refused to carry Murdoch's Fox News Channel on its cable system in New York City, prompting a spectacular squabble between Murdoch and Ted Turner.)


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