Example sentences for: squabbling

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

  • It is a hunger for glory and all that comes with it--a willingness to sacrifice one's personal desires to the common good; a sense of honor, dignity, and fair play--that allows politics to rise above a mere squabbling among interests.

  • Partisan squabbling over Lee's impending recess appointment subsided with this face-saving news: It now appears that Clinton will make an "acting" appointment of Lee, which is supposed to clock out in 120 days.

  • The New York Times leads with Russian prime minister candidate Viktor Chernomyrdin's no-duh on national television that, in the Times ' words, Russia "has entered a fiscal nosedive and that further political squabbling could lead to social chaos," a story that also makes the Los Angeles Times front, but which the Washington Post front bumps for pro football and model trains.

  • During the next 250 years, Bali’s rulers fell to squabbling among themselves and the island split into ten or more rajadoms.

  • His friendly relations with Greenspan--a dramatic contrast to the Bush administration's squabbling with the Fed--has soothed bankers and investors.


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