Example Sentences

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Since taking power last August, the Taliban leadership has been squabbling among themselves as they struggle to transition from war to governing.

From Washington Times • May 7, 2022

While the U.S. has been squabbling over the debt ceiling, its economy has slowed too, and the European sovereign crisis risks a recession in the region next year.

From BusinessWeek • Aug. 9, 2011

Ever since he learned about the level of pollution in "Mother," as he calls the Ganges, Mishra, 59, has been squabbling with government authorities and pleading with other temple chiefs to clean up the river.

From Time Magazine Archive

I sawPg 309 Lewis to-day, who is just returned from Oatlands, where he has been squabbling with Mad. de Staël about himself, Clarissa Harlowe, Mackintosh, and me.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas

I saw Lewis to-day, who is just returned from Oatlands, where he has been squabbling with Mad. de Stael about himself, Clarissa Harlowe, Mackintosh, and me.

From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 by Prothero, Rowland E. (Rowland Edmund), Baron Ernle