spat
Example Sentences
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Durant appeared nonplussed by the spat, while admitting that he had deliberately taken a combative approach into the game.
From Barron's
Moments after his defeat, he told the world about his suspected broken jaw and spat out blood for dramatic effect.
From BBC
There are spats and hugs, frolics and bonding, and not much thrust to the tale.
From Los Angeles Times
The maneuver that prompted Mosaic’s spat with Eurex can improve reaction times by about 3.2 nanoseconds, according to the French firm, which calls it “corrupted speculative triggering,” or CST for short.
The reader’s expectations get overturned faster than a bucket of milk when the goat and the sheep get into a spat over which of them is entitled to say “baa.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
