bickering
Example Sentences
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When the booster bums out, it falls to earth with a whickering scream.
From Time Magazine Archive
The noise was a swelling tide: horses blowing and whickering, lords shouting commands, men-at-arms trading curses, camp followers squabbling.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Old Bess and Jack ran along the inside of the fence, whickering at the new horses.
From "Sarah, Plain and Tall" by Patricia MacLachlan
Amid the appalling stillness that reigned throughout the encampment, except the tramp of feet and an occasional whickering of a battery horse, no sound broke the deep silence.
From The Black Phalanx African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War by Wilson, Joseph T. (Joseph Thomas)
Even as we looked a high whickering cry, the call of some weird animal, rang clear out of the darkness.
From The Lost World by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
