bickering
Example Sentences
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There was much intra-Senate grousing and griping and bickering in the days preceding Friday morning’s vote.
From Slate • Mar. 28, 2026
The pair are later seen bickering just as they did in the old days.
From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026
Shots of children too absorbed in their tablets to play with each other intermingle with classic bickering between Tom Hanks‘ Woody and Tim Allen‘s Buzz Lightyear.
From Salon • Feb. 19, 2026
Once they no longer had an off-ice relationship at stake, they could resume their normal on-ice bickering:
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026
They mingled around, bickering petulantly for a minute; tempers died; the game commenced again.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
