How to Use infighting in a Sentence

infighting

noun
  • What does the GOP’s infighting mean for the health of the party and the country, and for the 2024 presidential campaign?
    The Editors, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Cringe at the frustration and infighting as union leaders clash over how to take on the powers that be.
    Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2024
  • At the time of Biden's speech, the House had not yet been able to agree on a speaker amid weeks of conservative infighting.
    Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 19 Oct. 2023
  • However, like a lot of bands, the infighting and jealousy was just too much.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 22 Apr. 2023
  • One theme throughout the transcripts is the intense infighting that was a constant feature of the Trump White House.
    Alan Feuer, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Since then, the Michigan GOP has imploded with infighting over the future of the party.
    Monica Potts, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2023
  • But political infighting in the EU and in the United States has held up a long-term source of funding.
    TIME, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Despite the spectacle of infighting, there is a sense in which the G.O.P. has rarely been so unified—behind Trump.
    Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2023
  • Last week’s infighting is likely to leave some bruises even as members try to patch things up.
    Dallas News, 10 Jan. 2023
  • What does all this infighting mean for the Republican brand?
    Rafi Schwartz, The Week, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Senate Democrats have largely stayed out of the fray amid the Republican infighting.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 23 Jan. 2024
  • That policy dispute has triggered bitter infighting that at times has pushed the board to the brink of dysfunction.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2023
  • Apart from council infighting, Gilbert’s buildout is a top concern for the town, which is expected to happen by 2030.
    Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 20 Jan. 2024
  • And how many dark comedies have made the audience hostages to the acerbic infighting of cheerless relatives gathered around the tree?
    A.a. Dowd, Chron, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The duo’s Journey infighting crescendoed that same year during an arena tour.
    Vulture, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The controversy may sound like harmless infighting among a small group of physicists.
    Dan Falk, Discover Magazine, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Past efforts by the group to intervene in primaries have often caused infighting.
    Shane Goldmacher, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Republican infighting has brought the Missouri Senate to a crawl this year.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2024
  • There was some interesting infighting that happened as folks tried to claim membership to the Tribe.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Lawmakers hold hearings and draft rules, but succumb in the end to infighting and paralysis.
    Casey Newton, The Verge, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Arroyo and Lara are just two of the most infamous members of a council that has been hamstrung by infighting and disarray for most of this two-year term.
    Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
  • For a long time, Putin appeared content to allow such infighting — and Prigozhin seemed to have unusual latitude to speak his mind.
    Emma Burrows, Aamer Madhani, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Aug. 2023
  • One benefit of waiting is that Biden is keeping much of the focus on the GOP infighting over the party nomination.
    Ryan King, Washington Examiner, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The 42-page opinion released to attorneys Thursday and obtained by The Washington Post follows months of infighting on the school board.
    Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The fact that every Ukrainian gain creates more infighting in Russia, that’s very helpful for the Ukrainians to have their victory.
    Yasmeen Serhan, Time, 27 June 2023
  • Now that the first development has happened, things already seem lined-up for at least six more episodes of nasty familial infighting.
    Gene Seymour, CNN, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The board infighting had raged for years and the district’s leadership was a continuous revolving door.
    Henry Krausse, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Mar. 2023
  • That coalition collapsed after 22 months in power due to infighting over a promise by Mahathir to hand the premiership to Anwar.
    Reuters, CNN, 19 Nov. 2022
  • And there’d be a lot of goings on in different groups and subgroups within the tail light community that were at each other’s throats, and infighting and intrigue.
    Quartz Staff, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2024
  • But his army chief poured cold water on such hopes, saying in a statement that the army was backing the mutineers to avoid bloodshed and prevent infighting among the security forces.
    Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 28 July 2023

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