A quarrel about petty points.
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Examples for "spat "
Examples for "spat "
1 The latest diplomatic spat came as violence along the Israel-Gaza border simmered.
2 Anyway, in this case, the number it spat out was your age.
3 I spat , none too pleased with my situation, press-ganged into mercenary service.
4 Following the spat , Trump signed an executive order to regulate social media.
5 This is Mr Trump's second high-profile spat with a female news anchor.
1 The league has come and gone without fuss ; wait for the championship.
2 The newscaster had made a fuss over that issue also, of course.
3 Grandmother wanted most of all to save the family money & fuss .
4 There are often days when I want something tasty with minimal fuss .
5 Why all the fuss , if Ireland is fully funded until next year?
1 Well you young people are impressionable.' She again started moaning and bickering .
2 We know there was a long, earlier era of bickering machine probes.
3 And it represents a calamity far beyond the bickering of local lords.
4 The parents were bickering , perhaps about how she had gotten that way.
5 Einstein was the only thinker in a century gone mad from bickering .
1 The politicians just shout and squabble and all of Europe knows it.
2 Cross-border banks may prove harder to resolve if authorities squabble over losses.
3 Later we may squabble , just the way I do with Walt now.
4 Now divine attention has become a resource that they must squabble for.
5 Once they are in there they can talk and squabble for hours.
1 I do not think that I am in a tiff , Sir Francis.
2 He privately thought the girl might have gone off in a tiff .
3 They parted in a tiff - that 's the way she got rid of him.
4 We had a slight tiff , and she has bolted off to Meran.
5 They had a little tiff on account of Johnson's Edition of Shakspeare.
1 Before we can bicker any further, the sheriff walks into the courtroom.
2 He could not bear to hear his parents bicker any longer.
3 They can bicker and brawl to their hearts' content, it makes no difference.
4 It is never good news when two of the world's biggest economies bicker .
5 The current suspects get to bicker in a stylish basement with insulated walls.
1 Do you take for philosophy this twaddle, this intolerable pettifoggery adorned with a few scholastic trimmings?
2 "I must observe that this whole proceeding smacks of pettifoggery and chicanery."
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