How to Use fractious in a Sentence

fractious

adjective

• The fractious crowd grew violent.
• But those tools aren’t as easy to deploy in a fractious state.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2020
• Japan in the late ’60s was a fractious place with riots.
  — Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 17 June 2026
• Alliances are tested and fractious rebels rarely see eye-to-eye.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
• Roberts wanted to use that bond to help unite a clubhouse that had been fractious in the past.
  — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2017
• Odysseus knows how to massage an ego; that was his role in the fractious Greek camp.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• As with so much else in these fractious times, the culprit was social media.
  — Shoaib Daniyal, Quartz India, 4 June 2019
• In an often fractious field, that is about as close to a consensus view as can be found.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2020
• Health care reform is dead for the moment and a fractious fight over tax reform still awaits.
  — Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 2 Nov. 2017
• Jaron and Zilpha are often a fractious pair.
  — Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2025
• Given the fractious history of the long dormant band, that may be for the best.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2023
• Such is the fractious nature of this city and its inexhaustible pool of umbrage.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 13 July 2019
• When May called the snap election last month, her opponents were weak and fractious.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 27 May 2017
• Earlier, the board sat through more than four hours of fierce, fractious public comment.
  — Hannah Natanson, Washington Post, 30 June 2020
• Growth is sluggish, politics are fractious, and debt levels are high.
  — Clem Chambers, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
• To that could, and perhaps should, be added fractured and fractious, disruptive.
  — New York Times, 9 Sep. 2021
• Trump and Vos have long had a fractious relationship.
  — Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 19 Feb. 2026
• Those higher up the totem pole may become fractious to stop colleagues from advancing up the ranks.
  — Satyen Sangani, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
• A lot of that is thanks to the fan vote, which leaves the process of picking the league’s best of the best to a group that’s biased and fractious.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 3 July 2017
• Leaders will discuss these ideas at what is sure to be a fractious EU summit next week.
  — The Economist, 21 June 2018
• The former has been a fractious place this season as the club have struggled in League Two.
  — Matt Slater, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
• Politics in Chicago can be fierce and fractious.
  — Scott Simon, NPR, 21 Feb. 2026
• Trying to lead a fractious caucus with only a few votes to spare is always going to be a thankless job.
  — The Editors, National Review, 2 Jan. 2025
• The fifth hour opens with striking shots of majestic, empty streets after four hours that were so bustling with fractious life.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2020
• No debate is more fractious than that surrounding distance, which has for years rumbled along like a freight train in the night.
  — Eamon Lynch, Golfweek, 4 Feb. 2020
• But the social media mood has changed in the past few years and become increasingly fractious.
  — Nancy Doyle, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
• The union that survives the title character at the show’s end is as fractious as the one that buys tickets today.
  — John Leland, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2018
• These are fractious times for the fraternal duos of filmmaking.
  — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2026
• Homelessness has perhaps been the most fractious issue between Aragón and the board.
  — Dominic Fracassa, SFChronicle.com, 14 June 2020
• Both the rice pudding and the milk pudding called kazandibi had developed leathery skins over the top, and the baklava was hard and fractious.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Mar. 2018