spats

Example Sentences

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Prone to social media outbursts, grandiloquent speeches and public spats, Petro has burned through more than 60 ministers in four years.

From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026

There have been internal spats, members booted out and an embarrassing leak of an online council meeting.

From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026

There are spats and hugs, frolics and bonding, and not much thrust to the tale.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2025

When Larry chokes on a crudité at the party, all of those spats are moot.

From Salon • Nov. 27, 2025

After seeing JT’s parents, his father so angry and vicious and his mother as passive as a wallflower, my family’s little spats seemed like a child’s game.

From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine