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

SALTBURN-BY-THE-SEA, England—The bickering started before we left London.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

After some long-winded bickering between the two camps, the fighters - relatively restrained until that point - finally sparked into life.

From BBC • Feb. 25, 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

Of course, there’s sometimes a reason to have a “real” quarrel, but the verbal exchanges that take place here are just plain bickering.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank