bickering
Example Sentences
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There was much intra-Senate grousing and griping and bickering in the days preceding Friday morning’s vote.
From Slate • Mar. 28, 2026
Shots of children too absorbed in their tablets to play with each other intermingle with classic bickering between Tom Hanks‘ Woody and Tim Allen‘s Buzz Lightyear.
From Salon • Feb. 19, 2026
Once they no longer had an off-ice relationship at stake, they could resume their normal on-ice bickering:
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026
The bloc is made up of 27 often bickering countries.
From BBC • Jan. 19, 2026
I was okay with it really, but still, it wasn’t a big thrill hanging out alone in my room for most of the night, listening to my parents’ off-key bickering caroling up the stairs.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
