On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Quibbling. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as carping or nitpicking and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Quibbling meaning
present participle and gerund of quibble
Synonyms of Quibbling
Using Quibbling
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of quibble
- Useful related words include: caviling, carping, nitpicking, pettifogging.
- In the example corpus, quibbling often appears in combinations such as: quibbling over.
Context around Quibbling
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 3 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Quibbling
- In this selection, "quibbling" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, quarrelsome, legal, legalistic and distinction stand out and add context to how "quibbling" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include any unsportsmanlike quibbling or fighting and despite the quibbling and distractions. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "quibbling" sits close to words such as aadi, aakash and aayush, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with quibbling
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
This quibbling distinction isn’t just semantics. (7 words)
The word they are quibbling with is “invasion”. (8 words)
They were notoriously quarrelsome, quibbling over punctuation, in particular the use of semicolons. (13 words)
The key thing here is not quibbling over words or terms but just to make Sander's positions very clear and totally destroy Trump's smears about he being a socialist and that the inference is that this is next to communism. (42 words)
I also expect some quibbling about the relative efficacy of - I believe this can be explained by a difference in the severity of disease between the patient groups, but I'm sure it will come up. (36 words)
That might sound like a lot of quibbling for a three-and-a-half-star review, but the stuff that thrills works so exceedingly well, you just kind of take it and run with it. (35 words)
Example sentences (10)
I also expect some quibbling about the relative efficacy of - I believe this can be explained by a difference in the severity of disease between the patient groups, but I'm sure it will come up.
They were notoriously quarrelsome, quibbling over punctuation, in particular the use of semicolons.
This quibbling distinction isn’t just semantics.
Despite the quibbling and distractions, we know that climate change contributes to environmental disasters like fire, anddiseases such as Covid-19.
The key thing here is not quibbling over words or terms but just to make Sander's positions very clear and totally destroy Trump's smears about he being a socialist and that the inference is that this is next to communism.
Macron meets Johnson in Paris: Macron calls the backstop "not just legal quibbling" but "genuine, indispensable guarantees".
That might sound like a lot of quibbling for a three-and-a-half-star review, but the stuff that thrills works so exceedingly well, you just kind of take it and run with it.
The word they are quibbling with is “invasion”.
True, Rosenstein could insist that he technically only said that there was no evidence in the original indictment, but that’s the kind of legalistic quibbling that, in my experience, the public loathes.
There was not a single incident of a protest or any unsportsmanlike quibbling or fighting for points which I may say, marred some of the other civilian competitions at the Olympic Games.
Common combinations with quibbling
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: