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Example sentences for: squabble

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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 New York Times goes with the eruption of a financial squabble between Democrats campaigning for seats in the House and Senate on the one hand and the White House and the DNC on the other.
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.
The characters squabble like siblings, jealous regardless of whether they have cause to be.
When air disasters occur, there is an investigation to determine the cause, much as, at the end of a relationship, we try to understand why it failed, but without the advantage of voice recording, so we're left to squabble endlessly over who said what.