quarrel
Example Sentences
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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 became so fiery that Lee MacPhail, the American League president, shifted Luciano off Orioles games.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026
She’s not in the center of a quarrel.
From Salon • Feb. 18, 2026
On Friday morning, Bernadette Joy, 40, and her husband AJ, 44, engaged in what seemed like a trivial couple’s quarrel: where to go grocery shopping that night.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 25, 2026
There was much shouting and debating among the Orcs; a quarrel seemed on the point of breaking out again between the Northerners and the Isengarders.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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