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
• The hope for this fractious family comes in the form of young Bud, played by the adorable, precocious 10-year-old Traum.
  — Mitchel Benson, sacbee, 30 Mar. 2018
• Meanwhile, weed is just one of many fault lines in Trump’s fractious coalition.
  — Ben Schreckinger, GQ, 25 Jan. 2018
• 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
• In an often fractious field, that is about as close to a consensus view as can be found.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2020
• As with so much else in these fractious times, the culprit was social media.
  — Shoaib Daniyal, Quartz India, 4 June 2019
• Such is the fractious nature of this city and its inexhaustible pool of umbrage.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 13 July 2019
• The current Speaker election process has been the most fractious in nearly 175 years.
  — Michael Peregrine, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
• 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
• The real competition is off the pitch: in the Middle East, even watching the game is fractious.
  — The Economist, 21 June 2018
• Leaders will discuss these ideas at what is sure to be a fractious EU summit next week.
  — The Economist, 21 June 2018
• 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
• Elections in Ivory Coast are fractious times for investors.
  — Baudelaire Mieu, Bloomberg.com, 29 Aug. 2020
• How will the deal play out in Israel’s fractious politics?
  — Asher Kaufman, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Creating a sense of unity among the fractious Arab states will be hard, and there are other leaders in the Arab world to challenge the young Prince.
  — James Stavridis, Time, 22 Mar. 2018
• Our history as a country has been bloody and fractious.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 20 Jan. 2021
• One thing that remains the same, however, is the fractious nature of Trump’s coalition.
  — Aaron Coy Moulton / Made By History, TIME, 16 Jan. 2025
• 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
• While the first season was a slow burn, dwelling on the fractious politics of the era, the second ratchets up the pace considerably.
  — Matt Kamen, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
• The 27-year-old’s relationship with the national team has been a bit fractious over the years, but his talents have long been well-known.
  — Jonathan Tannenwald, Philly.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• 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
• The sight of the crown prince warmly greeting Zelenskyy contrasted sharply with the images from a fractious White House meeting that went around the world, presenting the crown prince as a statesmanlike figure.
  — Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, The Conversation, 14 Mar. 2025
• The House, concerned that getting its fractious conference on board with two bills is too precarious, wants to address all the priorities in one big bill.
  — Barbara Sprunt, NPR, 21 Feb. 2025