Example sentences for: squabbling

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

  • Barak's governing coalition was already squabbling viciously, a party allied with Barak had splintered and collapsed, the opposition had called for a no-confidence vote, West Bank and Golan settlers were readying PR campaigns against Barak's peace schemes, and my in-laws were shouting at the television every time Barak came on the screen: "He wants to give it all away!"

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

  • Sir John Francis Davis, an early governor, disgusted with the squabbling of the English residents, declared: “It is a much easier task to govern the 20,000 Chinese inhabitants of the colony than the few hundreds of English.”

  • 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.

  • (There is something indisputably bizarre in the spectacle of distinguished mathematicians squabbling about the correct names of 14 th -century rabbis.)


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