Example Sentences

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“We are squabbling and, rather, joking with my wife,” he told reporters, complaining that the incident was being overblown into “a sort of geo-planetary catastrophe.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2025

“Today we ask for your support in ending a lobbying campaign that threatens to make Starlink unusable” Currently, SpaceX and Dish are squabbling over a range of radio frequencies known as the 12GHz band.

From The Verge • Jun. 28, 2022

But most of the parties are squabbling about who gets to carry that banner — resulting in a confusing mess.

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2018

If the Patriots are squabbling, it did not prevent their advancement to a seventh consecutive AFC championship game, the prize for their 35-14 demolition of the game-yet-helpless Tennessee Titans.

From Washington Post • Jan. 13, 2018

It is pleasant to meet with a little gratitude to Darwin among the epigoni who are squabbling over the heritage he conquered for them, but Mr. Cunningham's personal expression of that feeling is hasty.

From Evolution and Ethics by Huxley, Thomas Henry