How to Use quarrel in a Sentence

quarrel

1 of 2 noun
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  • 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
  • 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
  • On sites like Poetry Life, his peers quarreled daily over matters like the possibilities of colloquial poetry writing.
    — Han Zhang, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • According to relativity and to quantum mechanics — the two quarreling theories that rule the universe — the Big Bang should have created equal amounts of matter and antimatter, which should have annihilated each other long ago.
    — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The disaster quickly became politicized, dividing people — and quarreling political parties — over who should be held accountable.
    — Choe Sang-Hun Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023

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