How to Use qualm in a Sentence

qualm

noun
  • He accepted their offer without a qualm.
  • Those qualms did not last long.
    — Killian Baarlaer, The Courier-Journal, 12 Aug. 2025
  • At lunchtime, hunger overrides my qualms.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • But Johnson had no such qualms.
    — Caleb Yum, Austin American Statesman, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Many have such qualms due to the pricing problem.
    — Thomas Elias, Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2025
  • And he was said to have had no qualms about running for office.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 18 July 2024
  • But the Dodgers won’t lose any sleep over one roster qualm.
    — Katie Woo, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Those qualms are valid, but harping on them misses the point.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • And even in good times, there’s always qualms about the lineup.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 24 July 2024
  • Scouts had no qualms about Thomas’ game but were worried about his goals.
    — Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2018
  • The show itself makes no qualms about being Irish.
    — Anna Russell, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Klum has no qualms about sharing a topless moment with her fans.
    — Meg Walters, InStyle, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Stipe had no qualms about sharing how tough the process had been so far, and how slow-going.
    — Jon Mooallem, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Tough, as Bochy said, even if Gray’s qualms are with himself.
    — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The man himself has no qualms about his desire to hit the hundred.
    — Paul Newman, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2025
  • The staffers who fill Lynn’s network appear to have no such qualms.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 26 May 2026
  • Unlike her, my father had no qualms about breaking rules.
    — Andrea Bajani, New Yorker, 7 June 2026
  • But the 26-year-old pop singer-songwriter has no qualms about that.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 1 Aug. 2025
  • And Stewart had some qualms about how she was presented in the film.
    — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Meier will be stationed by the dining room set to answer any and all etiquette qualms.
    — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Our tester loved this pillow, but her only qualm was having to store the unused fill.
    — Ashley Zlatopolsky, Architectural Digest, 15 Aug. 2024
  • On the other hand, anyone who’s been to college has to have some qualms about its value.
    — Bloomberg.com, 16 Jan. 2018
  • My biggest qualm with indie sleaze in 2025 is…the lack of sleaze.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Most folk, out-take Nack, reckoned the qualm was a tale the priests wrought up to wring out our silver.
    — Clair Wills, The New York Review of Books, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Make no qualms about it—fragrance is booming, and has been for the past five years like never before.
    — Kayla Greaves, Essence, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Attia’s emails with Epstein reveal no such qualms.
    — Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Klemm had no qualms about having the 5-foot-7 Dumpit handle the ball down the stretch.
    — Paul Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Burrow also had qualms about playing the Ravens for the fourth straight year in prime time on the road.
    — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 27 Nov. 2025
  • One qualm is that this can lead to RVs packed together like sardines.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2021
  • As for the stigma that may come with having used a weight-loss drug, Gaffigan has no qualms about it.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, People.com, 3 May 2025

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