Example Sentences

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Supporters and opponents of herd reduction both agree they are quarreling over ranching on a scale dwarfed by huge cattle operations elsewhere.

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2021

Happily, the moments when St. Aubyn’s main characters are quarreling with someone aren’t the book’s only high points.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2021

Trees are blooming, vaccines are going in arms, young people in media are quarreling with one another — after a cold, dark, drained-of-feeling year, New York is re-emerging, puckishly.

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2021

Which means that back on the island, the misfit toys are quarreling.

From Slate • Apr. 24, 2017

“Oh, so because you are quarreling with Blaine, you are now eating the chocolate he doesn’t like?”

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie