How to Use bickering in a Sentence

bickering

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
  • The whole episode is cute, with the two bickering and getting raunchy in equal measures.
    Vulture, 29 Apr. 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
  • There’s a lot of bickering (as my mother would call it) among our two teens and young adult.
    Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Aside from some bickering and eeriness, the movie’s pitch rarely varies.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2022
  • That hasn’t stopped the bickering, online and in person, between the two groups.
    Joe Heim, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2022
  • The bickering finally led to Williams blocking off the road.
    oregonlive, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The bickering started soon thereafter and hasn’t stopped since.
    Anh Dostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Since then, there’s been a lot of bickering about that settlement.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Yet despite decades of bickering, experts still don’t agree on a best method.
    Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 June 2022
  • Business owner Shlomo Danzinger, who stayed out of the bickering, won with 499 votes.
    NBC News, 17 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Wednesday, signaling an end to the bickering the board has been embroiled in since the summer.
    Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Bass is promising a new day and inspiring L.A.'s guardians to forget about the bickering, at least for a moment.
    Dennis Romero, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Joe Biden and Donald Trump bickering over who is best placed to bring American jobs back home?
    Courtney Fingar, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The guilt trips, the relationships, the constant banter, the proving, and the bickering between our parents.
    Sara Tan, refinery29.com, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Amid the bickering, Mr. Jordan’s supporters urged him to fight on and call for a third vote on his candidacy on the House floor.
    Annie Karni, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • This may be the end result of the seemingly endless bickering between Nielsen and the networks that has taken place for more than a year.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The episode trots along without much further bickering.
    Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 29 June 2023
  • In most other sports, the question of who deserves to be called the GOAT is reliable fodder for bar-side bickering.
    Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 30 Mar. 2023
  • But is all the bickering really just a way of showing their subtle love for each other?
    Janaya Wecker, Good Housekeeping, 17 Mar. 2022
  • While in Kyiv, Europe’s top diplomats were all too aware of the wrangling and bickering in Washington.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • The bickering starts immediately, and Kasie copes by reaching for the wine.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Many were killed in the violent bickering that seems to be a local tradition.
    Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2024
  • For all their bickering, teasing, and conflicts, the Belchers have each other — and this movie is not ashamed to hammer that message home.
    Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2022
  • Cue the constant bickering followed by hot make-out sessions.
    Lincee Ray, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2023
  • 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

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