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Examples of bicker in a Sentence
after a prolonged bicker, they finally managed to find a movie that both of them were interested in seeing
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Gru and Dru bicker but find common cause when Bratt — a petulant, mulleted former 1980s TV child star — leads a giant robot of himself and an army of malevolent flying action figures on an invasion of Hollywood.
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Women with families, careers or toxic love interests escape to party, bicker, be united by a common conflict and grow.
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Their marriage has turned into a constant bicker-fest, and their creative careers seem to have dead-ended (Anna is an Uber driver, Ben a permanent couch potato).
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Inevitably, the two bicker, right up to the point when they're abducted, thrown in a car trunk and whisked off to Colombia.
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Clocks shout slogans, lightning taunts thunder, flutes envy cannons, days of the week bicker.
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In the play, Vanya and Sonia share a home in Pennsylvania and bicker.
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Origin and Etymology of bicker
Middle English biker
Examples of bicker in a Sentence
She is always bickering with her mother.
They bickered about how to decorate the room.
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Within hours, Mr López’s and Mr Capriles’s parties were bickering over how long the latest trancazos should last.
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Officials from both sides bickered back and forth before the SEC office finally mediated a solution -- that the game would take place Nov. 19 in Baton Rouge.
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Will Kurdistan’s bickering politicians finally put their differences aside?...
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Altieri and his screenwriters are clearly shooting for a Coen-esque energy in the ensuing scenes, where Jennifer proves harder to kidnap than expected and tough-guy posturing gets de-fanged by bickering between the brothers.
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A national solution to the trash problem has yet to be found, as politicians bicker over who stands to benefit from potentially lucrative garbage-disposal contracts.
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In This is Just a Test, by Madelyn Rosenberg and Wendy Wan-Long Shang, David Da-Wei Horowitz has two bickering grandmothers vying for his attention.
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Party stalwarts in Washington are bickering over what message wins in the age of Trump — and what districts are winnable.
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But while politicians are still bickering over Brexit, a large number of voters in both the pro and anti-Brexit communities have moved on — something likely to hurt UKIP.
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First Known Use of bicker
15th century
BICKER Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of bicker for English Language Learners
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: to argue in a way that is annoying about things that are not important
BICKER Defined for Kids
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playDefinition of bicker for Students
bickered
;bickering
: to quarrel in an irritating way especially over unimportant things
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