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.

  • A NYT front-pager describes U.S. officials as weary of the squabbling between ant-Hussein dissident groups, and says that at least one the U.S. is still funding is likely riddled with double agents.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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