SQUABBLE in a Sentence

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10 example sentences for SQUABBLE, such as:

1. All wars are in reality money squabbles.
2. Mother is devoted to Dad although they squabble all the time.
3. This squabble of her attitude to the servants was an old one.
4. We had been squabbling continually for years, and I hated him.
5. Besides, the invariable squabble for money on Saturday nights had begun to weary her unspeakably.

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 Meanings and Examples of SQUABBLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
squabble
 n.  minor quarrel; noisy quarrel, usually about a trivial matter
Classic Sentence:
1  Besides, the invariable squabble for money on Saturday nights had begun to weary her unspeakably.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In EVELINE
2  I am glad he is not, after all--though I wish you chaps would not squabble over the picture.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
3  Work til you are more a brute than a human being; and then cuddle and squabble and drink til you fall asleep.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
4  This squabble of her attitude to the servants was an old one.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
5  'After a good deal of squabbling,' said my aunt, 'I got him; and he has been here ever since.'
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME
6  We had been squabbling continually for years, and I hated him.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: VIII
7  All wars are in reality money squabbles.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  So they squabbled; but she kept out of it.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
Example Sentence:
1  Children invariably get involved in such a squabble; wise parents know when to interfere and when to let the children work things out on their own.
2  Mother is devoted to Dad although they squabble all the time.