DISAGREEMENT in a Sentence

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For DISAGREEMENT, below is one of 29 sentences:
He said the disagreement over how to ventilate the mine showed just why the agency should have open hearings on the accident.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISAGREEMENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
disagreement
 n.  the speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing
 n.  a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters
Classic Sentence:
1  I lifted Hareton in my arms, and walked off to the kitchen with him, leaving the door of communication open, for I was curious to watch how they would settle their disagreement.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  When this slight disagreement was over, they were friends again, and as busy as possible in their several occupations of pupil and teacher.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
3  These two disagreed at every point where disagreement was possible.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
4  As usual, Snowball and Napoleon were in disagreement.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
5  Scarlett did not argue the matter, much as she preferred to ride, for she wished no disagreement with Mammy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
6  They deprecate the sight of scattered counsels, of internal disagreement; and especially they dislike making their just criticism of a useful and earnest man an excuse for a general discharge of venom from small-minded opponents.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
7  The diplomatists think that their disagreements are the cause of this fresh pressure of natural forces; they anticipate war between their sovereigns; the position seems to them insoluble.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER IV
8  At the basis of the works of all the modern historians from Gibbon to Buckle, despite their seeming disagreements and the apparent novelty of their outlooks, lie those two old, unavoidable assumptions.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER I
9  I fancied the discontent of age and disease arose from his family disagreements; as he would have it that it did: really, you know, sir, it was in his sinking frame.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
10  There were dissensions within the Confederate cabinet, disagreements between President Davis and his generals.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
11  James and his father had many disagreements about me.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  I hope this disagreement does not divide us.
2  There is wide disagreement on this issue.
3  There is disagreement within the government over the exact timing of the referendum.
4  It seems that what lay behind the clashes was disagreement over the list of candidates.
5  The judge arbitrated a disagreement between workers and management.
6  The things she said were always in disagreement, with the teacher or another member of the class.
7  OK, this seems to be an area of disagreement, so let's put it to the ballot.
8  Britain and France have expressed some disagreement with the proposal.
9  It was a source of disagreement between the two states.
10  This view is subjective and therefore open to disagreement.
11  It's led to major disagreement about how best to administer development funds among some government departments.
12  He said the disagreement over how to ventilate the mine showed just why the agency should have open hearings on the accident.
13  But he did not hide their disagreement over Kyoto.
14  The principle decided to adjudicate the disagreement between two students.
15  Yes, we did have our disagreements but that's water under the bridge now.