How to Use squabble in a Sentence

squabble

1 of 2 noun

• His house was the vault of ugly memories: the fights, the squabbles, the taunts, the slurs.
  — Gregory M. Collins, National Review, 27 Dec. 2023
• No squabble that can’t be dismissed with a smile and a song.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2023
• On the surface, the squabble over the Asi is highly local.
  — New York Times, 21 June 2021
• Sadly, the prison yard squabble turns bloody the next day, and James is killed when a brawl breaks out.
  — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2022
• Nichols has for the first time addressed the squabble and its causes.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 30 Sep. 2022
• And all without even a hint of a squabble over a suitcase.
  — Jessica Burrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Feb. 2024
• The gesture is used later in the season to quell a squabble.
  — Emily Heil, Anchorage Daily News, 1 July 2023
• This isn't the first time Journey has been in the news for a squabble between bandmates.
  — Rasha Ali, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2022
• During a squabble, one of the partners threw a pair of scissors at him.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
• Sometimes a fight broke out, and the staff would guide those in the squabble to separate ends of the shelter.
  — James Ross Gardner, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021
• For most players, the squabble would’ve been just a bad decision.
  — Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2023
• How such squabbles might be resolved, of course, is still an open question.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Aug. 2023
• Though the pair were able to laugh off the household squabbles, Jasmine soon became homesick.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 16 Oct. 2023
• There was a squabble between coaching staff from both schools.
  — Chron, 25 June 2021
• Then there were squabbles with the Danish vaccine maker.
  — Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
• Davis died years ago, and the sale followed an intrafamily squabble over the card’s rightful heir.
  — Jeff Barker, baltimoresun.com, 1 Nov. 2021
• Are more squabbles likely to get in the way of progress on what to do about renovating or building a courthouse?
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 31 July 2023
• The kids started a game that soon turned into low-grade squabble, when, suddenly, an air-raid siren blared.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2023
• Hamtramck isn’t the only city with Pride-flag squabbles.
  — Allan Lengel, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023
• The argument started to sound a lot like another river squabble: The one surrounding the source of the Nile.
  — Marina Dias, Washington Post, 12 June 2023
• The bridge district is embroiled in legal squabbles with the contractor.
  — John Branch Jim Wilson, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2023
• The Senate reduced the term of enhanced coverage to six months, and it’s been held up in a state-federal squabble.
  — Allie Morris, Dallas News, 10 Jan. 2023
• The squabble between ​the two presidents goes beyond the fate of a pair of white Pungsans, a dog breed indigenous to North Korea.
  — Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022
• Whatever happened in the hair and makeup room was only a squabble.
  — Shafiq Najib, Peoplemag, 31 Dec. 2022
• The partners then struggle for control and to stay afloat, but their sibling-like squabbles are nothing compared to the tantrums of their famous clients.
  — Chandra Steele, PCMAG, 30 Aug. 2023
• At one point, he was caught in the middle of a furious squabble among activists over whether foxes should be trapped to save birds in those wetlands.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
• The parochial squabble had also become a subject of far wider interest.
  — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2021
• No one has to wait till December for a holiday squabble.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 15 Aug. 2022
• Unfortunately, there was a bit of a squabble among the lead group of competitors after the race in Buena Vista.
  — Brian Metzler, Outside Online, 16 Aug. 2022
• The spat has escalated from a neighborhood squabble blurbed about in the local Larchmont Chronicle to a fight that could end up in court.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023

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squabble

2 of 2 verb

• The children were squabbling over the toys.
• His children have in the years since squabbled over the running of the empire.
  — Benjamin Stupples, Bloomberg.com, 13 Apr. 2023
• The effort to bring Good Food to Prince George’s has not been without squabbling.
  — Rachel Chason, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2018
• The two often squabble over naming rights, and that’s sure to be a running joke in the show as well.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 13 Sep. 2021
• The two sides are expected to squabble before the WTO over that amount.
  — Emre Peker, WSJ, 15 May 2018
• The newspaper said the three owners are squabbling about a sale.
  — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2023
• But those who do might take notice, and stop squabbling about the finer points.
  — Dana Milbank, The Mercury News, 31 July 2019
• The creatures squabbled in a foreign tongue for a minute, then one of them raised its weapon and pointed it at Ned.
  — cleveland, 18 Nov. 2019
• In the opening pages the X-Men show off their powers to Professor Xavier and squabble a bit.
  — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
• But the two transit agencies squabbled from the start over how much revenue each should get from Day Pass sales.
  — Beau Evans, NOLA.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• In the very next room, my healthy children squabbled over who would practice piano first.
  — Christie Tate, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2019
• For six months, no government was formed, as the two camps squabbled over who would get which ministries.
  — The Economist, 2 Aug. 2019
• Willis and the exiled group members have squabbled publicly over rights to the Village People name.
  — Allison Stewart, chicagotribune.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• The life of an extravagant, squabbling gay couple is shaken by the arrival of a 10-year-old boy, who claims to the grandson of one of the men.
  — Kevin Crust, latimes.com, 24 June 2018
• More days of squabbling in Congress could kill that show of confidence.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2020
• But the path forward for the bill remained unclear as the conference squabbled over how to proceed.
  — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2024
• Johnson knew that a squabbling family would provide the bedrock for the story.
  — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 26 Nov. 2019
• When food is available in small areas, the brighter birds are more likely to squabble and push other members of the flock around.
  — Fox News, 11 June 2020
• No surprise, then, that the two sides are squabbling as the number of potential claimants expands.
  — azcentral, 29 Mar. 2018
• As the civilian vessel bore down, the panicked officers squabbled about what to do.
  — Megan Rose, ProPublica, 20 Nov. 2019
• The trial scene implodes, first as the clans squabble among themselves, and then as an unexplained fire breaks out and engulfs the room.
  — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 21 Mar. 2019
• In the Bay Area and cities throughout the country, residents and politicians are squabbling over how streets should look and function.
  — Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 27 July 2019
• But that’s starting to change, in what is shaping up to be a nail-biting game of debt ceiling squabbling as the shot clock is winding down.
  — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 20 Apr. 2023
• In addition to haggling over the content of a deal, the two sides are also squabbling over how any new rules would be enforced.
  — Anna Fifield, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2019
• Often, spectators catch a confluence of ravens and magpies that swoop in to squabble for the same fish.
  — Jenna Kunze, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Nov. 2020
• Aides role-played as members of Congress who might have wanted to squabble with him on camera.
  — Noah Weiland, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2019
• Nearby vineyards have squabbled over the right to use the image on wine labels, and the story has even inspired a comic opera.
  — Mark A. Walsh, New York Times, 26 June 2018
• Oh, and London and Brussels continue to squabble over the future of trade in and out of Northern Ireland.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 23 June 2021
• The two sides recently squabbled over who would support the striking auto unions in Michigan and raced to visit their picket lines.
  — Desirée Leclercq, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
• Brooks, 35, and Dr. Al Madani, 37, meanwhile, squabbled over parenting advice.
  — Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 29 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024