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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Jessica Kiang, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
Thinking back to her 12-show stint as an opener for *NSYNC during 2001’s PopOdyssey tour, Gibson recalled getting into a tiff with the boy band’s management team about wanting to use her own piano for her set.
—Mark Gray, People.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Ryan Kang | Getty Images Sports fans who watch games on YouTube TV got good news yesterday amid Google's tiff with Fox.
—Alex Harring, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2025
Alex gets in a tiff with Boyd Holbrook’s provocative podcaster Brodie, but they are later seen face to face in what looks like close quarters.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 20 Aug. 2025
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Noun
Returning home from some opening or other one evening, Marta (Rohrwacher) and her partner Antonio (Elio Germano) get into an apparently familiar argument — more of a tiff really — that for some reason this time escalates towards a different end, with Antonio moving out.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
Thinking back to her 12-show stint as an opener for *NSYNC during 2001’s PopOdyssey tour, Gibson recalled getting into a tiff with the boy band’s management team about wanting to use her own piano for her set.
—Mark Gray, People.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Ryan Kang | Getty Images Sports fans who watch games on YouTube TV got good news yesterday amid Google's tiff with Fox.
—Alex Harring, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2025
Alex gets in a tiff with Boyd Holbrook’s provocative podcaster Brodie, but they are later seen face to face in what looks like close quarters.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 20 Aug. 2025
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 20 Oct. 2025.
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