quarrel

As exercises in ordinary language, those analogies are difficult to quarrel with.

From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026

"Cuba has no quarrel with the United States. We do have the need and the right to protect ourself. But we are willing to sit down," Fernandez de Cossio said.

From Barron's ● Mar. 22, 2026

Maksim, eight, lists everything he has learnt in his patriotic education lessons: about great Russian poets and painters, about friendship and how not to quarrel.

From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026

The quarrel here isn’t over the terms of an energy contract or the routing of a pipeline.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026

“I should be sorry to quarrel over it,” said Hazel firmly, “but some of us need to silflay. We’re used to it, and rain doesn’t bother us.”

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Throughout our history, major domestic quarrels have erupted over economics: the prairie rebellion of the 1890s, the Progressive era, the New Deal.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

To avoid any quarrels, I suggest timing any stock sale, with the beneficiaries’ cooperation, so that no one inadvertently misses out on a dividend payment.

From MarketWatch ● May 21, 2026

Mr. Zipperstein suggests that the real drama was not in the bedroom but at the writing desk, where Roth’s quarrels with himself became art.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

We would say the solution starts with people power, not more academic quarrels.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2024

There’s no reason for me to go on describing all our quarrels and arguments down to the last detail.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

Even after the 2024 pact, Overdeck and Siegel quarreled over whether either of them breached their contracts or fiduciary duties, a fight that went into arbitration last year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

She added: “I knew he was unhappy at home. I wasn’t the little sweet coffee-tea-or-me wife. We quarreled a lot.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2025

Some San Cristóbal residents have even quarreled with Spanish-language professors and authorities at the Canarian Language Academy who contend that this way of speaking equates to nothing more than a linguistic game.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 12, 2023

Neighbors said he often quarreled with other residents in various apartment buildings he lived in near Tokyo.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 5, 2023

They never quarreled, those two, the way some girlfriends did over boys, or competed against each other for them.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison

During a two-day sentencing hearing lawyers quarrelled over aggravating factors.

From BBC ● May 13, 2025

But it has quarrelled with neighbours and allies since taking power.

From Reuters ● Sep. 14, 2022

In many of these cases, passengers have quarrelled with their flight attendants over mask use.

From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2021

Here, in the legendary birthplace of AI, they quarrelled over what to call their still-slumbering creation.

From Nature ● Oct. 1, 2019

Then there were different times when they quarrelled about nothing—but even the quarrels were those of lovers, which seemed sweet when they remembered them afterwards.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Written by Mr. Carney and Peter McDonald, who also contributes a funny supporting turn as one of Rick’s band mates, it stumbles into a bog of bitterness, quarreling and unseemly behavior.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

In 1994, Tori Amos’ U.S. video for her piano anthem “Cornflake Girl” presents a coven of quarreling young women driven through the desert in the back of a pickup truck.

From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2026

A decade later, Demme would suffer similar strife on the set of “Beloved,” quarreling with Oprah Winfrey over aspects of characterization in the supernatural slavery epic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2025

The quarreling threatens to undermine conservation goals because all decisions must be unanimous.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2023

The deaths set Roose Bolton’s lords to quarreling openly in the Great Hall.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

According to the police, "there was a tense atmosphere and some quarrelling".

From Barron's ● May 16, 2026

If a siinqee stick is placed on the ground by a married woman between two quarrelling parties, it means the conflict must stop immediately out of respect.

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2025

The quarrelling neighbors haven’t met in a test series in 16 years and one-day international and Twenty20 series in 10 years.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2023

The quarrelling made military cooperation between them impossible, and eventually provoked the collapse of the wider Condor network, putting paid to the campaign in Europe.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 3, 2020

As usual they were quarrelling, and being of different breeds they used the Common Speech after their fashion.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien