How to Use fractious in a Sentence

fractious

adjective
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  • The fractious crowd grew violent.
  • Odysseus knows how to massage an ego; that was his role in the fractious Greek camp.
    — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Given the fractious history of the long dormant band, that may be for the best.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2023
  • And this is a movement, like any movement, that can be kind of fractious . . .
    — Michelle Boorstein and Justine McDaniel, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The current Speaker election process has been the most fractious in nearly 175 years.
    — Michael Peregrine, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Those higher up the totem pole may become fractious to stop colleagues from advancing up the ranks.
    — Satyen Sangani, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
  • One report suggests that Xi was injured by a chair hurled during a fractious confab of CCP princelings.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Over the years, the band, one of the most successful and famously fractious in rock history, propelled nine songs into the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.
    — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The job is not just about holding your fractious party together, but your country.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
  • During downtime between drives or ranching gigs, vaqueros gathered to see who could ride the most fractious horse, or who was the surest hand with a rope.
    — Chris La Tray, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022
  • With only a thin and fractious majority in the House, the GOP is facing two years of struggling to set any kind of positive agenda.
    — Patrick T. Brown, CNN, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Blinken then had a three-hour meeting Monday with Wang Yi, China’s top diplomat, that appeared to be a little more fractious.
    — Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 19 June 2023
  • Here is a closer look at the fractious House Republican caucus.
    — Charlie Smart, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Stolichnaya has a long and fractious history with Russia.
    — Saabira Chaudhuri, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
  • The 2022 midterms, deciding the balance of power in Congress, have been bitter, fractious and expensive in the billions.
    — Chicago Tribune, 9 Nov. 2022
  • All brought up at the absolute worst time during a fractious negotiation: the 11th hour.
    — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2022
  • That will mean many fractious sibling-like conflicts to prove who is strongest behind the wheel within their respective squads.
    — Brad Spurgeon, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Oh boy, this is a question that leads to many strong and fractious opinions, but one thing is true: Every generation has its sleep guru or trend.
    — Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The Conservative Party, like the Labour Party, is a large, sometimes fractious coalition.
    — The Editors, National Review, 26 Oct. 2022
  • As the primary season begins in Iowa next week, the political mood is fractious.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The Byrds’ often fractious dynamic continues to this day.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2022
  • After restoring that very belief 10 years ago, his failure to hold together Italy's fractious government is putting this faith to the test once more.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 21 July 2022
  • Pratt found an escape chute from a fractious family life and a prejudiced society in the theatre.
    — Hazlitt, 6 Sep. 2023
  • However, there was no sign that any of the most fractious issues between them were closer to resolution.
    — Matthew Lee, ajc, 19 June 2023
  • Thus began a fractious partnership Pitts and Perkins have described in court documents.
    — John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The picture is equally fractious in the Commonwealth, a loose association of 54 nations, mostly former British colonies, 15 of which still retain the queen as the head of state.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 1 June 2022
  • As the Conservatives’ fifth leader in just six years, Sunak will also have to go about the difficult business of uniting his fractious party.
    — Time, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Whoever assumes the role will be the leader of what the last few days have shown is likely to be a fractious, even ungovernable, Republican caucus.
    — Michael Fanone, CNN, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The tight margins in an already fractious environment in Congress could pose difficulties for both parties, and Biden on Wednesday sought to be the first to wave an olive branch.
    — Jess Bidgood, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Nov. 2022
  • But the alliance still faces hard, potentially fractious, choices ahead.
    — Jeremy Herb, CNN, 8 Apr. 2022

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