Quibbled is an English word. Below you'll find 5 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Quibbled meaning
simple past and past participle of quibble
Using Quibbled
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of quibble
- In the example corpus, quibbled often appears in combinations such as: quibbled over.
Context around Quibbled
- Average sentence length in these examples: 17 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 2 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Quibbled
- In this selection, "quibbled" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 17 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, asa and sometimes stand out and add context to how "quibbled" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include beds or quibbled over when and he sometimes quibbled over details. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "quibbled" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with quibbled
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I quibbled over her word usage. (6 words)
He sometimes quibbled over details in the script. (8 words)
They quibbled with the Melbourne Cricket Club about paying £175 for damages to the MCG despite a prior arrangement to do so. (22 words)
Nursing home after nursing home told her there were no beds, or quibbled over when and how he would be eligible for a bed under Medicaid. (26 words)
The ASA quibbled over her wording about the cash-prize alternative and even the charities she hoped to donate to withdrew their backing. (23 words)
They quibbled with the Melbourne Cricket Club about paying £175 for damages to the MCG despite a prior arrangement to do so. (22 words)
Example sentences (5)
I quibbled over her word usage.
Nursing home after nursing home told her there were no beds, or quibbled over when and how he would be eligible for a bed under Medicaid.
The ASA quibbled over her wording about the cash-prize alternative and even the charities she hoped to donate to withdrew their backing.
He sometimes quibbled over details in the script.
They quibbled with the Melbourne Cricket Club about paying £175 for damages to the MCG despite a prior arrangement to do so.
Common combinations with quibbled
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: