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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Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
Tokyo and Beijing will benefit from insulating their trade ties from their diplomatic tiffs.
—Jeff Kingston, Time, 15 Feb. 2026
Their tiffs were almost entirely about women dancing suggestively on prime-time television.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2026
News round-up There’s been a rebuke for Cristiano Ronaldo amid his tiff with Al Nassr.
—Phil Hay, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2026
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Noun
For those of you who aren't sickos like the rest of us and didn't pay attention to every piece of pre-draft media that came your way, there was a little bit of a tiff on the set of Good Morning Football at the site of the NFL Draft Thursday morning.
—Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
Tokyo and Beijing will benefit from insulating their trade ties from their diplomatic tiffs.
—Jeff Kingston, Time, 15 Feb. 2026
Their tiffs were almost entirely about women dancing suggestively on prime-time television.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2026
News round-up There’s been a rebuke for Cristiano Ronaldo amid his tiff with Al Nassr.
—Phil Hay, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for tiff
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“Tiff.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tiff. Accessed 29 Apr. 2026.
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