How to Use quarrel in a Sentence

quarrel

1 of 2 noun
  • For mind you, these quarrels were public.
    — Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 15 Nov. 2025
  • In the past few years, the sleep divorce trend has solved many lovers' quarrels.
    — Medgina Saint-Elien, House Beautiful, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The quarrel began over nothing, as these things do.
    — Daniyal Mueenuddin, New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2025
  • But even among the closest of friends, serious quarrels can arise.
    — David L. Stern, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Israel and Lebanon have no quarrel and aren’t fighting.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • This month, the quarrel will be settled by forfeit, as Cole’s makes its last dip in the au jus.
    — Jeff Weiss, Air Mail, 10 Jan. 2026
  • But for the next two years he was haunted by their quarrel—and by John’s certainty.
    — Alex Perry, Outside Online, 24 July 2019
  • Likewise, quarrels related to a pet or even with health-care workers might arise.
    — Georgia Nicols, The Denver Post, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Some party attendees got into a quarrel, then left the house.
    — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2023
  • My quarrel is not with the science of LNG itself.
    — Joel McPherson, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Officials are open to doing business with anyone as long as they aren’t dragged into quarrels.
    — Drew Bernstein, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • According to three sources, the woman had been speaking to Miller at the bar prior to the quarrel.
    — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 1 July 2022
  • There is enough division already without such quarrels.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Often, accusations started as a quarrel, or the death of a child or a cow, or even butter that couldn’t be churned.
    — Susan Haigh, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Often, accusations started as a quarrel, or the death of a child or a cow, or even butter that couldn't be churned.
    — CBS News, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Kaz and Inej quarrel over the former's lack of a plan for finding a way through the Fold by sunrise.
    — Nick Schager, EW.com, 23 Apr. 2021
  • The heart of the novel is the web of subterfuges, quarrels and reunions that comprise Julien and Mme.
    — J. Michael Lennon, wsj.com, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Police said the quarrel escalated when a 39-year-old man pulled out a gun and shot the victim twice.
    — Natalie McMillan, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Police said a quarrel among several people turned physical, and shots were fired.
    — Dylan Olsen, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2026
  • But Warnock said the quarrel over procedural rules meant failing on substance.
    — Farnoush Amiri, ajc, 25 Aug. 2022
  • The scene is just two pages—quarrel, scythe, scream, retreat—and neither mother nor father speak of it to their daughter ever again.
    — Tobi Haslett, Harper's Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Placing a pair on a table for no reason is considered a way of messing with fate and could result in a loss of a job or a quarrel.
    — Yelena Moroz Alpert, House Beautiful, 20 June 2023
  • The latter proved to be a popular topic with the cast while filming and led to at least one or two onscreen quarrels in the new season.
    — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Investigators didn’t release details of what started the quarrel or how far the man was chased.
    — Mark Price, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Nothing explains the vicious quarrel between dogs and raccoons.
    — James Lileks, Star Tribune, 20 Nov. 2020
  • The victim was stabbed multiple times in the back as the quarrel escalated, police said.
    — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Today the Moon in your sign is at odds with fiery Mars, hinting at domestic quarrels and problems.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Hip-Hop has equally thrived on legendary quarrels and strong relationships.
    — Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • This followed a quarrel between two separate parties within the group.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
  • When Rudolf gets a promotion to the head office in Berlin, he and Hedwig quarrel.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 22 May 2023

quarrel

2 of 2 verb
  • The children quarrel all the time.
  • I don't want to quarrel with you.
  • She and her husband are always quarreling about money.
  • Franklin’s son and grandson quarreled.
    — Stacy Schiff, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Most had quarrelled with someone right before the act.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
  • No one who spends a few moments with her and her colleagues at their workspace here would quarrel with that.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The Rus’ state had become fragmented, beset by quarrelling among its princes.
    — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Fistfights broke out in bakeries; customers quarreled in department stores.
    — Nicole R. Zimmerman, Longreads, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Now few would quarrel with the view of Alejandro Rodriguez, an Army medic who served in Iraq.
    — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Few in New Zealand would quarrel with Ardern’s handling of the pandemic.
    — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 12 June 2020
  • An elderly couple, their seven children grown and scattered, quarrel bitterly about how to spend the years that remain.
    — New York Times, 25 Mar. 2021
  • On Tuesday alone, lawmakers quarreled publicly at least four separate times.
    — Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
  • After their return to the Negev Lot and Abraham both have large flocks of livestock, but their herders begin to quarrel.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 July 2026
  • Now might not seem the moment for Democrats to be quarrelling, but many of them believe that the only way to build the Party back up is to remake it.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
  • Her father, after quarreling with Antigone’s mother, locked her out of their house overnight, which led to a terrible accident.
    — Rachel Vorona Cote, The Atlantic, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Will the two be allowed to wed, or will Ellen’s brothers, quarrelling over their father’s chair, bargain her off to other suitors to improve their chances?
    — Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
  • As a matter of course, pundits and academics quarrel about political descriptors.
    — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Both parties previously quarreled on whether the developer responded to concerns laid out by the city.
    — Detroit Free Press, 16 June 2023
  • There were no wizards or crime-solving or magical nannies; there were children who play with dogs and ride bikes and have parents who occasionally quarrel.
    — Star Tribune, 4 Apr. 2021
  • Not to be outdone, Democrats in New York have spent months quarreling over the leadership and direction of their own party.
    — Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The lack of money has, at times, led to quarrelling between the services - most notably pitting the navy against the army and the Royal Air Force.
    — Ian King, CNBC, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The two men had been known to quarrel before, but this time Banry pulled out a pistol and shot Bowers once in the stomach, authorities allege.
    — oregonlive, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Interpersonal conflict can arise when Jupiter quarrels with Pluto.
    — USA TODAY, 17 May 2023
  • In fact, Twain might well have quarreled with the whole premise of celebrating America’s 250th birthday.
    — Ron Chernow, The Atlantic, 2 July 2026
  • That afternoon, two men at the Times Square station quarreled in Spanish after one of them complained about people blocking his path.
    — Ana Ley, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2023
  • No one can quarrel with the grand jury’s conclusion that Hankison deserved to be charged because of his life-threatening recklessness.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Now presidents have routinely quarreled with governors and states controlled by the opposition party.
    — Chuck Todd, NBC News, 25 July 2023
  • The Page amendment elevates that right, adding the requirement that the education be a quality education, a point with which no one can quarrel.
    — Eric Magnuson, Star Tribune, 14 Mar. 2021
  • The short clip of him giving Richard and Maxine sips of water from a glass and tenderly telling them not to quarrel has racked up more than 26 million views since it was posted last year.
    — Cathy Free, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The brothers were known to quarrel often, but in recent years, the squabbling turned into a legal entanglement as Sid sued Marty over business dealings and profits.
    — Maane Khatchatourian, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2023

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