How to Use fractious in a Sentence

fractious

adjective

• The fractious crowd grew violent.
• But those tools aren’t as easy to deploy in a fractious state.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2020
• The move was seen as one that might briefly improve his government's fractious relationship with China.
  — Rod McGuirk, Star Tribune, 25 Sep. 2020
• Seven years ago, the often fractious community hammered out its current research road map and rallied around it.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 2 Oct. 2020
• Socially and aesthetically, the beer buildings form part of the glue that holds together a fractious city.
  — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 1 Oct. 2020
• The chancellor’s partners in a fractious coalition — the liberal FDP and the Greens — struggled even more.
  — Mahnoor Khan, Fortune Europe, 2 Sep. 2024
• Though that contest was not as fractious as last month's presidential debate, Pence and Kaine frequently interrupted each other.
  — Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2020
• The action against Bradshaw comes despite the fractious council’s recent unanimous support of a plan to hold mediation talks to help city leaders iron out their differences.
  — Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, 21 Sep. 2020
• Odysseus knows how to massage an ego; that was his role in the fractious Greek camp.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• May’s premiership, explains much of what has since occurred in the fractious discussions between London and Brussels, and the consequent brinkmanship.
  — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2020
• Given the fractious history of the long dormant band, that may be for the best.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2023
• And this is a movement, like any movement, that can be kind of fractious . . .
  — Michelle Boorstein and Justine McDaniel, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Jan. 2023
• The current Speaker election process has been the most fractious in nearly 175 years.
  — Michael Peregrine, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
• Sam is not the silent type, and the fractious love among women — including Sam’s grande-dame mother (Celia Imrie) — is the show’s core.
  — New York Times, 16 June 2021
• Our history as a country has been bloody and fractious.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 20 Jan. 2021
• The case, which the court will consider in the nine-month term that starts in October, will put the justices in the middle of one of the country’s most fractious debates.
  — Greg Stohr, Fortune, 26 Apr. 2021
• Those higher up the totem pole may become fractious to stop colleagues from advancing up the ranks.
  — Satyen Sangani, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
• To that could, and perhaps should, be added fractured and fractious, disruptive.
  — New York Times, 9 Sep. 2021
• The fifth hour opens with striking shots of majestic, empty streets after four hours that were so bustling with fractious life.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2020
• One report suggests that Xi was injured by a chair hurled during a fractious confab of CCP princelings.
  — Charlie Campbell, Time, 11 Oct. 2022
• But the social media mood has changed in the past few years and become increasingly fractious.
  — Nancy Doyle, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
• And Wiley, meanwhile, appears to be the strongest candidate from the fractious left.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 28 May 2021
• Over the years, the band, one of the most successful and famously fractious in rock history, propelled nine songs into the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.
  — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2022
• The job is not just about holding your fractious party together, but your country.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• Jordan, too, would be at risk if a radical Palestinian state turns its sights on a fractious Hashemite regime.
  — Bret Stephens New York Times, Star Tribune, 18 May 2021
• But his party faces a fractious battle over how to recover.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 5 July 2024
• During downtime between drives or ranching gigs, vaqueros gathered to see who could ride the most fractious horse, or who was the surest hand with a rope.
  — Chris La Tray, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022
• Many observers had written off such resistance groups as too fractious and weak to present a genuine challenge to the junta.
  — Avinash Paliwal, Foreign Affairs, 24 Jan. 2024
• But a more ambiguous contact might lead to more fractious results.
  — Ezra Klein New York Times, Star Tribune, 13 May 2021
• Mace’s second campaign for reelection put on display the shifting allegiances of the fractious modern GOP.
  — Tommy Barone, ABC News, 11 June 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024