spat

But Mitchell spat on three straight balls to get to a full count.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

I’ve seen Tanden get into a headline-making spat with progressive blogger Matt Bruenig; I’ve even watched her carry on a one-sided vendetta against Susan Sarandon.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

In a spat with Altman on X, Musk said Altman’s money had been refunded.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

On television pictures, a voice can be heard saying "he spat on me" as the players made their way down the tunnel at TSC Arena.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

"Kappe's orders were for us to move on to Chicago as soon as possible," Quirin spat, challenging Dasch's leadership.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

In a reminder of the delicate nature of their ties, diplomats between the two countries last week spatted over a South Korean lawmaker’s visit to disputed islets located in the waters between the two countries.

From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2023

They had tried, these attendants, to expound, from time to time, on various objects to the spatted or braceleted clients of Scott and Fowles.

From Time Magazine Archive

Luxe is a clumsily tender Arcadi an idyl, the Isle of Cythera transferred to an as yet unpopular St.-Tropez, spatted with dots of neo-impressionist light.

From Time Magazine Archive

The rift began, bleated keyhole journalism's grand old man, when ex-Bootlegger-Speakeasier Billingsley, whose flossy Stork Club got much of its floss from Winchell's ceaseless plugs, spatted with Winchell over a pack of cigarettes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their rope-soled shoes tapped and spatted on the pavement.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

I’m sure if I looked hard enough, I could find some subsection of the dinosaur community where people are spatting over science or fighting about feathers and scales.

From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2026

If an argument were a tennis match, many of us would tear right through the net during a frenzy of back-and-forth spatting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2022

Nelson, a Flower Mound Republican, said Monday of her House counterparts, “We’re not spatting with them.”

From Washington Times ● Apr. 13, 2015

Thanks to the magic of Twitter, we can now experience all of the spinning, spatting, and snarking from both sides of the aisle in real time.

From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2014

"Oh, what pretty white water!" cried Zaidee, eagerly, stooping down and spatting her hands in the trough, and then throwing it up in the air.

From Cricket at the Seashore by Harriet Roosevelt Richards