How to Use bickering in a Sentence

bickering

1 of 2 noun

• Have each of them pick a movie to show so there's no bickering about what to watch.
  — Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 14 June 2023
• What followed was a whole bunch of messy bickering in the press.
  — Charlotte Walsh, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2023
• Aside from some bickering and eeriness, the movie’s pitch rarely varies.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2022
• There’s a lot of bickering (as my mother would call it) among our two teens and young adult.
  — Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2022
• The whole episode is cute, with the two bickering and getting raunchy in equal measures.
  — Vulture, 29 Apr. 2022
• Yet despite decades of bickering, experts still don’t agree on a best method.
  — Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 June 2022
• Since then, there’s been a lot of bickering about that settlement.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2022
• The bickering started soon thereafter and hasn’t stopped since.
  — Anh Dostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2022
• There was no partisan bickering, not over that.
  — Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 6 Nov. 2025
• The duo spends thirty-five seconds searching for their dad’s grave and bickering.
  — Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026
• That hasn’t stopped the bickering, online and in person, between the two groups.
  — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2022
• Cue the constant bickering followed by hot make-out sessions.
  — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2023
• There was contention and bickering and fighting.
  — Anika Reed, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
• The reunion picks up with Ashley and Wendy bickering over who has the moral high ground.
  — Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
• Full moons are unpredictable, so, on a bad day, this could mean petty bickering within your friend group.
  — Sophie Saint Thomas, Allure, 25 Apr. 2022
• But is all the bickering really just a way of showing their subtle love for each other?
  — Janaya Wecker, Good Housekeeping, 17 Mar. 2022
• In a place where cell-phone reception fades, so does social-media bickering.
  — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2022
• The kids in middle school bickering over, who gets to sit at the popular kids table or something like that.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 2 Mar. 2022
• Many were killed in the violent bickering that seems to be a local tradition.
  — Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2024
• Wednesday, signaling an end to the bickering the board has been embroiled in since the summer.
  — Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 17 Nov. 2022
• Despite all the bickering, the money, and the fame, the magic of movies kept the pair together.
  — Eric McQuade, The Atlantic, 27 Dec. 2021
• Once Joe arrives home, the bickering begins.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2026
• What's a family holiday without a big feast — and a lot of bickering?
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 7 Aug. 2022
• Despite their constant bickering, the two share a very special bond behind the cameras.
  — Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
• Is this a true and deep friendship, or is that internal bickering an indication of a deep rot?
  — Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 18 Aug. 2025
• And if the bickering and bantering between the animal leads doesn’t win you over, the ending will take you down.
  — Chris Snellgrove, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Dec. 2025
• The fish are here with us on the planet, but they weren’t consumed by what was going on, the shutdowns and politics and bickering.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2022
• This seems to be the happy medium in a baseball world that is so committed to the binary bickering of old school vs.
  — Jules Posner, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2022
• When the trailer came out, the scene of Louis and Lestat bickering went off like a bomb within the fandom.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 June 2026
• The defense played really well last half, second half of the season and there was never any bickering between guys.
  — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 10 Jan. 2022

bickering

2 of 2 adjective

• The two exes have a drink in her hotel room, cancel on their dates, never realizing the truth, and wind up successfully counseling a bickering couple in the next room over.
  — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 15 Nov. 2023
• Her bit involving the hot-and-cold frustration over a malfunctioning air conditioner is ingenious, and serves as a perfect metaphor for her bickering couple.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2024
• The drama turns on two perennially bickering sisters, named Mariam and Noura, whose father dies and unexpectedly leaves a large sum of money in the bank.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 30 June 2023
• The eurozone, an ungainly cross between an economic federation and a bickering assemblage of proud nation-states, will be slower to exploit the new opportunities.
  — Sebastian Mallaby, Foreign Affairs, 29 May 2020
• There will be no studio audience during the 90-minute VP debate, but expect some sparring and more bickering than bantering ahead of the 2 minute closing arguments.
  — Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
• As their online relationship develops, their in-person bickering intensifies.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Apr. 2023
• The best part of the book is the sweetly complicated relationship at its center, between a bickering Scully-and-Mulderesque pair of operatives hired to investigate.
  — Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2023