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

Only three years later, King Henry himself was quarrelling with the same Pope, and the Emperor was acting as the Pope's champion.

From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Hudson, Henry Norman

Then she burned it, and went to her baby, who was quarrelling with everything and trying to kill an India-rubber sheep.

From The Devourers by Chartres, Annie Vivanti

She recognised, too, she says, the voice of Frederick as the one that was quarrelling; but she did not dare confess it.

From Verner's Pride by Wood, Henry, Mrs.