How to Use fractious in a Sentence

fractious

adjective

• The fractious crowd grew violent.
• Odysseus knows how to massage an ego; that was his role in the fractious Greek camp.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• But those tools aren’t as easy to deploy in a fractious state.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2020
• Given the fractious history of the long dormant band, that may be for the best.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2023
• And this is a movement, like any movement, that can be kind of fractious . . .
  — Michelle Boorstein and Justine McDaniel, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Jan. 2023
• In an often fractious field, that is about as close to a consensus view as can be found.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2020
• The current Speaker election process has been the most fractious in nearly 175 years.
  — Michael Peregrine, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
• Elections in Ivory Coast are fractious times for investors.
  — Baudelaire Mieu, Bloomberg.com, 29 Aug. 2020
• Sam is not the silent type, and the fractious love among women — including Sam’s grande-dame mother (Celia Imrie) — is the show’s core.
  — New York Times, 16 June 2021
• Our history as a country has been bloody and fractious.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 20 Jan. 2021
• The case, which the court will consider in the nine-month term that starts in October, will put the justices in the middle of one of the country’s most fractious debates.
  — Greg Stohr, Fortune, 26 Apr. 2021
• Those higher up the totem pole may become fractious to stop colleagues from advancing up the ranks.
  — Satyen Sangani, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
• To that could, and perhaps should, be added fractured and fractious, disruptive.
  — New York Times, 9 Sep. 2021
• Earlier, the board sat through more than four hours of fierce, fractious public comment.
  — Hannah Natanson, Washington Post, 30 June 2020
• Homelessness has perhaps been the most fractious issue between Aragón and the board.
  — Dominic Fracassa, SFChronicle.com, 14 June 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
• The chancellor’s partners in a fractious coalition — the liberal FDP and the Greens — struggled even more.
  — Mahnoor Khan, Fortune Europe, 2 Sep. 2024
• 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
• One report suggests that Xi was injured by a chair hurled during a fractious confab of CCP princelings.
  — Charlie Campbell, Time, 11 Oct. 2022
• But the social media mood has changed in the past few years and become increasingly fractious.
  — Nancy Doyle, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
• And Wiley, meanwhile, appears to be the strongest candidate from the fractious left.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 28 May 2021
• Over the years, the band, one of the most successful and famously fractious in rock history, propelled nine songs into the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.
  — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2022
• The job is not just about holding your fractious party together, but your country.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• Jordan, too, would be at risk if a radical Palestinian state turns its sights on a fractious Hashemite regime.
  — Bret Stephens New York Times, Star Tribune, 18 May 2021
• But his party faces a fractious battle over how to recover.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 5 July 2024
• During downtime between drives or ranching gigs, vaqueros gathered to see who could ride the most fractious horse, or who was the surest hand with a rope.
  — Chris La Tray, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022
• Many observers had written off such resistance groups as too fractious and weak to present a genuine challenge to the junta.
  — Avinash Paliwal, Foreign Affairs, 24 Jan. 2024
• But a more ambiguous contact might lead to more fractious results.
  — Ezra Klein New York Times, Star Tribune, 13 May 2021
• But Trump is still seen in Beijing’s policy circles as likely to drive a more fractious relationship with China than Harris would.
  — Simone McCarthy, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
• Abbas had come to office focused on the twin goals of unifying the fractious Palestinian factions under his rule and securing a peace deal that would end decades of Israeli occupation and lead to an independent Palestinian state.
  — Khaled Elgindy, Foreign Affairs, 30 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024