quarrel
noun
an angry dispute or altercation; a disagreement marked by a temporary or permanent break in friendly relations.
was quarrelling
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past progressiveof quarrel.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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"He wanted to vent. We learned from his mother that on the day of the incident he was quarrelling with his wife," local police chief Chakkraphat Wichitvaidya told Reuters.
From Reuters ● Oct. 7, 2022
By this time, Krens was quarrelling with members of the Guggenheim’s board over his ambitions for the new museum.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 11, 2016
While the third court-martial was quarrelling with the lawyers, the fourth hurried through its business without phrases.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
He was quarrelling with his wife and daughters; their high notes of vituperation mingled in the most effective way with his manly thunder.
From The Nether World by George Gissing
What Ajax was quarrelling about or who his mother-in-law might be does not appear.
From The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses by James Anthony Froude
