shouting match

Example Sentences

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Bessent responded that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which oversees bank license applications, was an independent entity before the testimony descended into a shouting match.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

It became a three-way shouting match, the visit was cut short, and the minerals deal didn’t get signed.

From Slate • Mar. 1, 2025

Rather, she’d stomped off the Bears’ practice pool deck after a shouting match with Stovall, days after they had returned together from a national invitational meet in Orlando.

From Salon • Aug. 3, 2024

It led to a lengthy shouting match between the two men.

From BBC • Dec. 6, 2023

Then Mr. Larson led a rousing class discussion, more like a shouting match, about which kind of editorial treatment was best.

From "The Landry News" by Andrew Clements