How to Use squabble in a Sentence

squabble

1 of 2 noun

• Players from both teams broke up the squabble.
  — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 28 Dec. 2025
• Here are the top issues at the center of the squabble.
  — Ryan Mancini, The Hill, 15 Nov. 2025
• Nichols has for the first time addressed the squabble and its causes.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 30 Sep. 2022
• Thee Album, was kneecapped by the squabble.
  — Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 8 Mar. 2026
• The playground squabbles should be sorted out with a good clout round to the head.
  — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2026
• There was a squabble between coaching staff from both schools.
  — Chron, 25 June 2021
• How such squabbles might be resolved, of course, is still an open question.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Aug. 2023
• During a squabble, one of the partners threw a pair of scissors at him.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
• Sadly, the prison yard squabble turns bloody the next day, and James is killed when a brawl breaks out.
  — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2022
• For most players, the squabble would’ve been just a bad decision.
  — Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2023
• Mynahs squabble on the boundary fence.
  — Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
• This isn't the first time Journey has been in the news for a squabble between bandmates.
  — Rasha Ali, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2022
• In these squabbles, lies are told, stories are made up and the mantra that there are two sides to everything is proven false.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas Morning News, 19 Feb. 2026
• Sometimes a fight broke out, and the staff would guide those in the squabble to separate ends of the shelter.
  — James Ross Gardner, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021
• The kids started a game that soon turned into low-grade squabble, when, suddenly, an air-raid siren blared.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2023
• All this does is risk creating a public squabble, and people love to talk about someone else's spat.
  — Ross Kernez, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
• Whatever happened in the hair and makeup room was only a squabble.
  — Shafiq Najib, Peoplemag, 31 Dec. 2022
• Davis died years ago, and the sale followed an intrafamily squabble over the card’s rightful heir.
  — Jeff Barker, baltimoresun.com, 1 Nov. 2021
• Though the pair were able to laugh off the household squabbles, Jasmine soon became homesick.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 16 Oct. 2023
• The parochial squabble had also become a subject of far wider interest.
  — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2021
• But even with the reduced wishlist, many bills died in House-Senate squabbles.
  — Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 17 Mar. 2026
• Are more squabbles likely to get in the way of progress on what to do about renovating or building a courthouse?
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 31 July 2023
• The bridge district is embroiled in legal squabbles with the contractor.
  — John Branch Jim Wilson, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2023
• The incident followed a squabble between coaching staff from both schools.
  — NBC News, 23 June 2021
• Will this squabble turn into a lasting rivalry?
  — Nick Miller, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2025
• Be patient with kids and romantic partners, because squabbles might arise.
  — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 26 June 2026
• In the absurd way that such sideshows get blown out of proportion, this one briefly became fodder for the endless squabble.
  — Greg Petro, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
• Space multiple feeders out of sight to avoid hummingbird squabbles.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 21 Feb. 2026
• Low-stakes squabbles soon escalate, leading to a shocking end of the semester.
  — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2024
• At one point, he was caught in the middle of a furious squabble among activists over whether foxes should be trapped to save birds in those wetlands.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023

squabble

2 of 2 verb

• The children were squabbling over the toys.
• The squabbling brothers of the north west.
  — Ian Irving, New York Times, 3 May 2026
• But those who do might take notice, and stop squabbling about the finer points.
  — Dana Milbank, The Mercury News, 31 July 2019
• We’re left to squabble online and refresh the news.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026
• Pinking, bluing, both at once, as if two birds were squabbling over the nest of sky.
  — Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
• His children have in the years since squabbled over the running of the empire.
  — Benjamin Stupples, Bloomberg.com, 13 Apr. 2023
• Let the peasants squabble amongst themselves about the refs and how unfair life is.
  — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 13 Feb. 2026
• The newspaper said the three owners are squabbling about a sale.
  — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2023
• In the very next room, my healthy children squabbled over who would practice piano first.
  — Christie Tate, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2019
• The two often squabble over naming rights, and that’s sure to be a running joke in the show as well.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 13 Sep. 2021
• For six months, no government was formed, as the two camps squabbled over who would get which ministries.
  — The Economist, 2 Aug. 2019
• Picking up the phone to squabble over bills is not an appealing pastime to most of us.
  — Personal Finance Columnist, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Oct. 2025
• Others have begun squabbling over who gets what once the prime minister goes.
  — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2019
• More days of squabbling in Congress could kill that show of confidence.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2020
• And lively goldfinches love to squabble, but are limited by their half-ounce size.
  — Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2021
• Should kids be excited that their squabbling parents decided not to burn their house down?
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 11 Dec. 2019
• The creatures squabbled in a foreign tongue for a minute, then one of them raised its weapon and pointed it at Ned.
  — cleveland, 18 Nov. 2019
• As the civilian vessel bore down, the panicked officers squabbled about what to do.
  — Megan Rose, ProPublica, 20 Nov. 2019
• The two appear to briefly argue and squabble while moving away from officers.
  — Sylvia Goodman, chicagotribune.com, 5 Oct. 2021
• Aides role-played as members of Congress who might have wanted to squabble with him on camera.
  — Noah Weiland, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2019
• Johnson knew that a squabbling family would provide the bedrock for the story.
  — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 26 Nov. 2019
• No surprise, then, that the two sides are squabbling as the number of potential claimants expands.
  — azcentral, 29 Mar. 2018
• Then there are the lesser houses, the lower fiefdoms squabbling over the crumbs that fall from the big kids’ table.
  — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 14 May 2026
• Don’t squabble with your siblings over who gets my monthly ten-cent payments from Medium.
  — Danielle Kraese, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
• When food is available in small areas, the brighter birds are more likely to squabble and push other members of the flock around.
  — Fox News, 11 June 2020
• Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan have also squabbled over who should have the jewel.
  — Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 29 Apr. 2026
• But the path forward for the bill remained unclear as the conference squabbled over how to proceed.
  — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2024
• Often, spectators catch a confluence of ravens and magpies that swoop in to squabble for the same fish.
  — Jenna Kunze, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Nov. 2020
• But the two transit agencies squabbled from the start over how much revenue each should get from Day Pass sales.
  — Beau Evans, NOLA.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• No amount of planning can change the fact that families sometimes squabble, even as league rules demand unity.
  — Ira Boudway, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2024