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Examples of tiff in a Sentence
Noun
got into a little tiff about what color sheets to buy for their bed
Verb
like any couple, they occasionally tiff, but it's never anything serious
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Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 13 June 2024
And then there are the piques and temper tantrums of ministry officials and company executives who irritate their bosses, play politics or get into personal tiffs with their counterparts in other countries.
—Lisa Anderson, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022
To the casual observer, this public airing of grievances between megastars seemed as if two random artists from their Spotify playlist had inexplicably gotten into a tiff.
—Hazlitt, 30 May 2024
The story behind ExxonMobil’s current tiff began last December when Arjuna Capital and Follow This submitted a resolution calling on the company to accelerate its emissions reduction plans.
—Justin Worland, TIME, 28 May 2024
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Noun
But sadly, for the last decade or so, Cyrus’s tiffs haven’t been the fun, intracelebrity kind but the personal, family kind.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 13 June 2024
And then there are the piques and temper tantrums of ministry officials and company executives who irritate their bosses, play politics or get into personal tiffs with their counterparts in other countries.
—Lisa Anderson, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022
To the casual observer, this public airing of grievances between megastars seemed as if two random artists from their Spotify playlist had inexplicably gotten into a tiff.
—Hazlitt, 30 May 2024
The story behind ExxonMobil’s current tiff began last December when Arjuna Capital and Follow This submitted a resolution calling on the company to accelerate its emissions reduction plans.
—Justin Worland, TIME, 28 May 2024
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“Tiff.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tiff. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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