How to Use quarrel in a Sentence

quarrel

1 of 2 noun

• Trump’s main quarrel with the deal was the sunset clause.
  — Reese Gorman, Washington Examiner, 3 May 2023
• In the past few years, the sleep divorce trend has solved many lovers' quarrels.
  — Medgina Saint-Elien, House Beautiful, 3 Mar. 2023
• The heart of the novel is the web of subterfuges, quarrels and reunions that comprise Julien and Mme.
  — J. Michael Lennon, wsj.com, 7 Apr. 2023
• The girls get into it, too: Ren and Siena quarrel in the way sisters often do.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Sep. 2023
• According to three sources, the woman had been speaking to Miller at the bar prior to the quarrel.
  — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 1 July 2022
• Kaz and Inej quarrel over the former's lack of a plan for finding a way through the Fold by sunrise.
  — Nick Schager, EW.com, 23 Apr. 2021
• But for the next two years he was haunted by their quarrel—and by John’s certainty.
  — Alex Perry, Outside Online, 24 July 2019
• When Rudolf gets a promotion to the head office in Berlin, he and Hedwig quarrel.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 22 May 2023
• But even among the closest of friends, serious quarrels can arise.
  — David L. Stern, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
• If the two students had been chatting in the Bethune Annex Café on campus, nothing may have come of their quarrel.
  — Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2021
• Both Downing Street and the Treasury denied reports of any quarrel.
  — Quartz, 2 Oct. 2022
• The latter proved to be a popular topic with the cast while filming and led to at least one or two onscreen quarrels in the new season.
  — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2023
• After a quarrel in the summer of 2011, Lauren emptied a bottle of aspirin on the dresser and swallowed the pills one by one.
  — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2022
• The origin of Adams’s ferocious quarrel with the British is somewhat obscure.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
• Often, accusations started as a quarrel, or the death of a child or a cow, or even butter that couldn't be churned.
  — CBS News, 1 Feb. 2023
• Often, accusations started as a quarrel, or the death of a child or a cow, or even butter that couldn’t be churned.
  — Susan Haigh, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Feb. 2023
• Likewise, quarrels related to a pet or even with health-care workers might arise.
  — Georgia Nicols, The Denver Post, 15 Feb. 2024
• Some party attendees got into a quarrel, then left the house.
  — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2023
• Placing a pair on a table for no reason is considered a way of messing with fate and could result in a loss of a job or a quarrel.
  — Yelena Moroz Alpert, House Beautiful, 20 June 2023
• The scene is just two pages—quarrel, scythe, scream, retreat—and neither mother nor father speak of it to their daughter ever again.
  — Tobi Haslett, Harper's Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
• For the past few weeks, audiences have tuned in as Hassan has had a multiple-episode quarrel with Erin Lichy that stemmed from a push in a pool on a girls trip to Anguilla.
  — Mckinley Franklin, Variety, 1 Oct. 2023
• And with that puerile quarrel between stubborn warlords over the right to own and to rape a girl, Western literature begins.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• The two have been embroiled in a quarrel online after the incident occurred last Friday.
  — TIME, 20 Oct. 2023
• The Coalition has launched just a few months after the quarrel burst into the public eye, as Fubo and Hulu saw local stations vanish for some customers.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 July 2023
• But Warnock said the quarrel over procedural rules meant failing on substance.
  — Farnoush Amiri, ajc, 25 Aug. 2022
• In a rare about-face, Mr. Viñoly appeared worn down by the London quarrels over the project and eventually stepped aside — frustrated over the affection for the old smoke belcher.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2023
• So my quarrel isn’t with Leslie — or even with the type-A, talks-too-much-on-Zoom Leslie in me — but with a world that makes her political idealism seem impossible.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2020
• Officials are open to doing business with anyone as long as they aren’t dragged into quarrels.
  — Drew Bernstein, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• All the pieces are now in place for Israel’s decades-old quarrel with the Palestinians to explode into a regional cataclysm.
  — Ben Wedeman, CNN, 20 Oct. 2023
• The steady hum of scandals and quarrels was widely seen as undercutting Mr. Fayed’s quest to gain British citizenship.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023

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quarrel

2 of 2 verb

• The children quarrel all the time.
• I don't want to quarrel with you.
• She and her husband are always quarreling about money.
• No one who spends a few moments with her and her colleagues at their workspace here would quarrel with that.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Feb. 2023
• Now few would quarrel with the view of Alejandro Rodriguez, an Army medic who served in Iraq.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2023
• Few in New Zealand would quarrel with Ardern’s handling of the pandemic.
  — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 12 June 2020
• The Rus’ state had become fragmented, beset by quarrelling among its princes.
  — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• Not to be outdone, Democrats in New York have spent months quarreling over the leadership and direction of their own party.
  — Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• The short clip of him giving Richard and Maxine sips of water from a glass and tenderly telling them not to quarrel has racked up more than 26 million views since it was posted last year.
  — Cathy Free, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
• The two men had been known to quarrel before, but this time Banry pulled out a pistol and shot Bowers once in the stomach, authorities allege.
  — oregonlive, 11 Mar. 2022
• That afternoon, two men at the Times Square station quarreled in Spanish after one of them complained about people blocking his path.
  — Ana Ley, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2023
• An elderly couple, their seven children grown and scattered, quarrel bitterly about how to spend the years that remain.
  — New York Times, 25 Mar. 2021
• Fistfights broke out in bakeries; customers quarreled in department stores.
  — Nicole R. Zimmerman, Longreads, 9 Mar. 2023
• Transcend is well outside the vocabulary of a second-grader, probably even at GDS, but who’s going to quarrel with the gospel anthem of the civil rights movement?
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 23 Mar. 2022
• Nineteen of the council’s 51 members support the bill, including many from the Council’s progressive caucus who have quarreled with Mr. Adams over school budget cuts and policing.
  — William K. Rashbaum, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2023
• Minutes into the FaceTime convo, Kourtney and Kim were quarreling, with the latter accusing her big sister of stealing her style.
  — Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2023
• The Page amendment elevates that right, adding the requirement that the education be a quality education, a point with which no one can quarrel.
  — Eric Magnuson, Star Tribune, 14 Mar. 2021
• The brothers were known to quarrel often, but in recent years, the squabbling turned into a legal entanglement as Sid sued Marty over business dealings and profits.
  — Maane Khatchatourian, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2023
• No one can quarrel with the grand jury’s conclusion that Hankison deserved to be charged because of his life-threatening recklessness.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 24 Sep. 2020
• There were no wizards or crime-solving or magical nannies; there were children who play with dogs and ride bikes and have parents who occasionally quarrel.
  — Star Tribune, 4 Apr. 2021
• Both parties previously quarreled on whether the developer responded to concerns laid out by the city.
  — Detroit Free Press, 16 June 2023
• On Tuesday alone, lawmakers quarreled publicly at least four separate times.
  — Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• As a matter of course, pundits and academics quarrel about political descriptors.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2023
• Nobile traveled without Amundsen on his second trip (the two had quarreled after Amundsen accused Nobile of taking too much credit for their expedition).
  — Norman Vanamee, Town & Country, 24 June 2023
• Every president — even the most outspoken supporters of Israel — has quarreled with Israeli prime ministers at one point or another.
  — Peter Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
• Interpersonal conflict can arise when Jupiter quarrels with Pluto.
  — USA TODAY, 17 May 2023
• Now presidents have routinely quarreled with governors and states controlled by the opposition party.
  — Chuck Todd, NBC News, 25 July 2023
• In a state with a long, proud tradition of grassroots democracy, where people still sit shoulder to shoulder in high school auditoriums each spring to quarrel over budgets at annual town meetings, fierce debate is a hallmark of civic engagement.
  — Jenna Russell, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2023
• The legal dispute between Chapman and Minaj is a bit different from most copyright cases where litigants quarrel over whether works are substantially similar.
  — Eriq Gardner, Billboard, 18 Aug. 2020
• Unemployment in the United States, meanwhile, continues to march higher while lawmakers quarrel over new stimulus measures.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 20 Oct. 2020

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