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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Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025
When asked about the trade adviser’s tangle with the Tesla CEO — a top ally to the president — the White House largely brushed off the tiff.
—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 11 Apr. 2025
The trade war is objectively bad politics; in the last two days, the tariff tiff erased the entire gains Wall Street posted since Trump won in November.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 5 Mar. 2025
Beijing, which has struggled to regain economic momentum amid a housing crisis and tepid consumer confidence, says escalating the trade tiff will worsen inflation for American consumers—a scenario Trump ruled out last month.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
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Noun
The trade tiff has been accompanied by increasingly forceful rhetoric.
—Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025
When asked about the trade adviser’s tangle with the Tesla CEO — a top ally to the president — the White House largely brushed off the tiff.
—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 11 Apr. 2025
The trade war is objectively bad politics; in the last two days, the tariff tiff erased the entire gains Wall Street posted since Trump won in November.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 5 Mar. 2025
Beijing, which has struggled to regain economic momentum amid a housing crisis and tepid consumer confidence, says escalating the trade tiff will worsen inflation for American consumers—a scenario Trump ruled out last month.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
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“Tiff.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tiff. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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