SQUABBLE in a Sentence

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Work til you are more a brute than a human being; and then cuddle and squabble and drink til you fall asleep.

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 Meanings and Examples of SQUABBLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
squabble
 n.  minor quarrel; noisy quarrel, usually about a trivial matter
Classic Sentence:
1  Besides, the invariable squabble for money on Saturday nights had begun to weary her unspeakably.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In EVELINE
2  I am glad he is not, after all--though I wish you chaps would not squabble over the picture.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
3  Work til you are more a brute than a human being; and then cuddle and squabble and drink til you fall asleep.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
4  This squabble of her attitude to the servants was an old one.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
5  'After a good deal of squabbling,' said my aunt, 'I got him; and he has been here ever since.'
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME
6  We had been squabbling continually for years, and I hated him.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: VIII
7  All wars are in reality money squabbles.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  So they squabbled; but she kept out of it.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
Example Sentence:
1  Children invariably get involved in such a squabble; wise parents know when to interfere and when to let the children work things out on their own.
2  Mother is devoted to Dad although they squabble all the time.