How to Use bickering in a Sentence

bickering

noun
  • Have each of them pick a movie to show so there's no bickering about what to watch.
    — Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 14 June 2023
  • What followed was a whole bunch of messy bickering in the press.
    — Charlotte Walsh, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Aside from some bickering and eeriness, the movie’s pitch rarely varies.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2022
  • There’s a lot of bickering (as my mother would call it) among our two teens and young adult.
    — Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The whole episode is cute, with the two bickering and getting raunchy in equal measures.
    — Vulture, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Yet despite decades of bickering, experts still don’t agree on a best method.
    — Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 June 2022
  • Since then, there’s been a lot of bickering about that settlement.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The bickering started soon thereafter and hasn’t stopped since.
    — Anh Dostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2022
  • There was no partisan bickering, not over that.
    — Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The duo spends thirty-five seconds searching for their dad’s grave and bickering.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026
  • That hasn’t stopped the bickering, online and in person, between the two groups.
    — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2022
  • Cue the constant bickering followed by hot make-out sessions.
    — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2023
  • There was contention and bickering and fighting.
    — Anika Reed, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The reunion picks up with Ashley and Wendy bickering over who has the moral high ground.
    — Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Full moons are unpredictable, so, on a bad day, this could mean petty bickering within your friend group.
    — Sophie Saint Thomas, Allure, 25 Apr. 2022
  • But is all the bickering really just a way of showing their subtle love for each other?
    — Janaya Wecker, Good Housekeeping, 17 Mar. 2022
  • In a place where cell-phone reception fades, so does social-media bickering.
    — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2022
  • The kids in middle school bickering over, who gets to sit at the popular kids table or something like that.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Many were killed in the violent bickering that seems to be a local tradition.
    — Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Wednesday, signaling an end to the bickering the board has been embroiled in since the summer.
    — Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Despite all the bickering, the money, and the fame, the magic of movies kept the pair together.
    — Eric McQuade, The Atlantic, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Once Joe arrives home, the bickering begins.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2026
  • What's a family holiday without a big feast — and a lot of bickering?
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 7 Aug. 2022
  • Despite their constant bickering, the two share a very special bond behind the cameras.
    — Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Is this a true and deep friendship, or is that internal bickering an indication of a deep rot?
    — Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 18 Aug. 2025
  • And if the bickering and bantering between the animal leads doesn’t win you over, the ending will take you down.
    — Chris Snellgrove, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Dec. 2025
  • The fish are here with us on the planet, but they weren’t consumed by what was going on, the shutdowns and politics and bickering.
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2022
  • This seems to be the happy medium in a baseball world that is so committed to the binary bickering of old school vs.
    — Jules Posner, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2022
  • When the trailer came out, the scene of Louis and Lestat bickering went off like a bomb within the fandom.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 June 2026
  • The defense played really well last half, second half of the season and there was never any bickering between guys.
    — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 10 Jan. 2022

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