Wondering how to use Altercation in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as affray or fracas.
Altercation meaning
- An angry or heated dispute.
- An act of posing questions to, and obtaining answers from, a witness in a court of law.
- Angry or heated disputation.
Using Altercation
- The main meaning on this page is: An angry or heated dispute. | An act of posing questions to, and obtaining answers from, a witness in a court of law. | Angry or heated disputation.
- Useful related words include: affray, fracas, quarrel, wrangle.
- In the example corpus, altercation often appears in combinations such as: an altercation, altercation with, the altercation.
Context around Altercation
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 8 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Altercation
- In this selection, "altercation" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, backstage, verbal and violent stand out and add context to how "altercation" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a verbal altercation and a verbal altercation with a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "altercation" sits close to words such as assaulting, chatgpt and grandson, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with altercation
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
An altercation during this gathering led to the subsequent shooting. (10 words)
After a very difficult marriage, they were caught in an altercation on video. (13 words)
A staff member at Uspiritus Brooklawn became aggressive with a resident during a verbal altercation. (15 words)
The outside of Extreme Ink tattoo shop in Charlottetown was damaged during an altercation on Dec. 23.(Brian Higgins/CBC News)Charlottetown Police have charged a second person in connection to an altercation at a tattoo shop that left a man badly injured. (43 words)
ALL eight men allegedly involved in the death of Dylan McCarthy during an altercation in Monasterevin last August appeared together in court again last week (4 May) in anticipation of formally receiving their Books of Evidence, and thus a trial date. (41 words)
At around 2.45pm on Thursday Mr Wilson is alleged to have gone to a business at Brendale, in north Brisbane, where he had a verbal altercation with a man known to him before the firearm was discharged into the ground. (41 words)
Example sentences (20)
The outside of Extreme Ink tattoo shop in Charlottetown was damaged during an altercation on Dec. 23.(Brian Higgins/CBC News)Charlottetown Police have charged a second person in connection to an altercation at a tattoo shop that left a man badly injured.
Adel Badir is the mayor of Kafr Qasim, where a man was seriously injured in an Aug. 19 altercation.
AEW president Tony Khan announced earlier this month that Punk had been fired "with cause" over the backstage altercation he allegedly had with Jack Perry at the pay-per-view in London.
A fight over the device ensued between the pair and Babilya grabbed the Taser, shocking the officer with it during the altercation, according to court papers.
After a very difficult marriage, they were caught in an altercation on video.
A Harare man Moses Tapiwa Maswera will spend the weekend behind bars after being apprehended for an alleged violent altercation with his girlfriend.
ALL eight men allegedly involved in the death of Dylan McCarthy during an altercation in Monasterevin last August appeared together in court again last week (4 May) in anticipation of formally receiving their Books of Evidence, and thus a trial date.
An altercation during this gathering led to the subsequent shooting.
An August 2020 altercation between the two in downtown Springfield led Richards to being charged with two counts of aggravated battery and two counts of battery.
And then in April 2023 they were 2-0 up and closing in on the title when Granit Xhaka got into an altercation with Trent Alexander-Arnold.
An identically unseemly altercation was going on in Oyo State between Governor Rasheed Ladoja and his own political godfather, Lamidi Adedibu.
A police affidavit listed several visible signs of an altercation, including bite marks on her arm and abrasions on her face and leg.
Around a fortnight ago, the school announced it was closing the gate following an 'altercation' and all parents would have to use the entrance on St James Road.
As far as the backstage altercation between Guevara and Eddie Kingston is concerned, it was the way Guevara carried himself leading up to and after the verbal shot on Eddie that set him off.
As Monsters and Critics recently reported, Bam is reportedly on the run after getting into an altercation that resulted in physical injuries.
A staff member at Uspiritus Brooklawn became aggressive with a resident during a verbal altercation.
At around 12:15pm on Sunday March 5, police received a report of an altercation between the driver of a grey Hyundai i30 and the driver of a black Ford Falcon station wagon.
At around 2.30am he left the premises and became involved in an altercation with Nyron Scott.
At around 2.45pm on Thursday Mr Wilson is alleged to have gone to a business at Brendale, in north Brisbane, where he had a verbal altercation with a man known to him before the firearm was discharged into the ground.
At around 5pm on the same Sunday (September 24), there was an altercation between a number of men on the crossroads of Tuns Lane and Bath Road.
Common combinations with altercation
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an altercation 88×
- altercation with 42×
- the altercation 41×
- altercation between 18×
- physical altercation 18×
- altercation in 12×
- verbal altercation 12×
- altercation on 6×
- alleged altercation 6×
- altercation at 5×