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
  • But those tools aren’t as easy to deploy in a fractious state.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • In an often fractious field, that is about as close to a consensus view as can be found.
    — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2020
  • Such is the fractious nature of this city and its inexhaustible pool of umbrage.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 13 July 2019
  • The current Speaker election process has been the most fractious in nearly 175 years.
    — Michael Peregrine, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Elections in Ivory Coast are fractious times for investors.
    — Baudelaire Mieu, Bloomberg.com, 29 Aug. 2020
  • Sam is not the silent type, and the fractious love among women — including Sam’s grande-dame mother (Celia Imrie) — is the show’s core.
    — New York Times, 16 June 2021
  • Our history as a country has been bloody and fractious.
    — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 20 Jan. 2021
  • The case, which the court will consider in the nine-month term that starts in October, will put the justices in the middle of one of the country’s most fractious debates.
    — Greg Stohr, Fortune, 26 Apr. 2021
  • While the first season was a slow burn, dwelling on the fractious politics of the era, the second ratchets up the pace considerably.
    — Matt Kamen, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Those higher up the totem pole may become fractious to stop colleagues from advancing up the ranks.
    — Satyen Sangani, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
  • To that could, and perhaps should, be added fractured and fractious, disruptive.
    — New York Times, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Earlier, the board sat through more than four hours of fierce, fractious public comment.
    — Hannah Natanson, Washington Post, 30 June 2020
  • Homelessness has perhaps been the most fractious issue between Aragón and the board.
    — Dominic Fracassa, SFChronicle.com, 14 June 2020
  • No debate is more fractious than that surrounding distance, which has for years rumbled along like a freight train in the night.
    — Eamon Lynch, Golfweek, 4 Feb. 2020
  • The chancellor’s partners in a fractious coalition — the liberal FDP and the Greens — struggled even more.
    — Mahnoor Khan, Fortune Europe, 2 Sep. 2024
  • The fifth hour opens with striking shots of majestic, empty streets after four hours that were so bustling with fractious life.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2020
  • One report suggests that Xi was injured by a chair hurled during a fractious confab of CCP princelings.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 11 Oct. 2022
  • But the social media mood has changed in the past few years and become increasingly fractious.
    — Nancy Doyle, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Instead, the focus in the opening scene is on a fractious and scattershot meeting of the school’s parents’ council.
    — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2019
  • And Wiley, meanwhile, appears to be the strongest candidate from the fractious left.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 28 May 2021
  • Below are ten performances that broke through the noise of this fractious, tumultuous year.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Jordan, too, would be at risk if a radical Palestinian state turns its sights on a fractious Hashemite regime.
    — Bret Stephens New York Times, Star Tribune, 18 May 2021
  • Still, the vote illustrated the limits of the president-elect’s power to keep fractious House Republicans in line.
    — Carl Hulse, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2024
  • Should the party win any more seats in parliament, a potential coalition government formed by mainstream parties would be even more fractious and less stable than Scholz's.
    — Giulia Carbonaro, Newsweek, 22 Dec. 2024

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