Example sentences for: squabbling

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

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

  • Government and industry are squabbling over whether to promote the country as the modern, hip "Cool Britannia" or as the tradition-soaked land of high tea and Queen Victoria.

  • A young CBC editor assured me that language was a political issue only for the older generation in the city, that the young people, Anglophone and Francophone alike, were all pretty much bilingual and were generally bemused by all the squabbling.

  • For its part, the Senate is positively gloating about its own unanimity, so different from the squabbling rancor in the House.

  • 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.”


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