What's the difference between barney and squabble?

Barney


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We are effectively in funding limbo Professor Barney Glover, Universities Australia chair Glover was also set to emphasise the need for affordability because “cost must not deter any capable student from pursuing a university education”.
  • (2) Photograph: Alex Lake for Observer Food Monthly Sky Sports’ managing director, Barney Francis, added: “We wish Gary all the very best as he returns to football with our blessing and begins his managerial career with Valencia.
  • (3) Barcelona’s miracle worker Lionel Messi leaves Arsenal praying for one | Barney Ronay Read more City continue to monitor Messi’s situation should he become unsettled.
  • (4) But one has to ask how the former seven-year-old co-star of Barney and Friends and The Wizards of Waverly Place ended up in a movie that shows drunk girls urinating through their bikinis in public and forcing a gangsta-looking James Franco to suck off his handgun.
  • (5) Forty-nine out of 50 of the most popular Premier League games were shown on Sky Sports last season and a quick look at our opening schedule of fixtures shows Sky Sports is still the place to go for more of the games that matter,” said Barney Francis, managing director of Sky Sports.
  • (6) One woman who went to both Barney’s and Stein’s salons but had plenty going on at her own base, the bookshop Shakespeare and Company, was Sylvia Beach, who numbered among her great achievements the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses .
  • (7) Barney Ronay (@barneyronay) Bizarre spectacle as world's press swarms over woman in (very small) chile shirt.
  • (8) Barney Ronay (@barneyronay) Today I ruined the World Cup by writing an article about how exciting it was.
  • (9) Wales’s epic journey comes to an end as Ronaldo gets to run the Portugal show | Barney Ronay Read more Adrien Silva 6 Provided a teasing cross for Ronaldo from the left wing late in first half and was comfortable in possession without any truly blistering moments.
  • (10) Barney Ronay (@barneyronay) @JacobSteinberg come on Steinberg.
  • (11) After issuing a warning yesterday we have no hesitation in taking this action after becoming aware of new information today," said Sky Sports' managing director, Barney Francis.
  • (12) Forget the soundbites and sniggers, Brendan Rodgers deserved better | Barney Ronay Read more In his final press conference, just over an hour before his contract was terminated, Rodgers spoke of the rebuilding job which was required at Anfield and the time needed and he reiterated that in a statement released by the League Managers’ Association.
  • (13) The conserved open reading frames of Tc1 and Barney share identity with a structurally similar family of elements named HB found in Drosophila melanogaster, after the introduction of 3 small centrally located deletions in HB1.
  • (14) A new look for Darth Vader, as imagined by designer Barney George (www.barneygeorge.com) So how will Episode Seven play out?
  • (15) Northern Ireland are homeward bound but their fans are leaving on a high | Barney Ronay Read more Grigg failed to make it off Northern Ireland’s bench in France, but became one of the names of the tournament after the 90s song Freed From Desire was adapted in his honour.
  • (16) When her career took off at the age of 10 – a childhood of performing in the living room led to a stint jollying around with Barney the purple dinosaur in the 90s series Barney & Friends – Gomez's mother, Mandy Cornett, became her manager, a relationship Gomez now describes as "like a Gilmore Girls bond, except the dialogue's not as clever".
  • (17) The Sky Sports managing director, Barney Francis, said he had spoken to Keys and Gray personally.
  • (18) Until the 2008 financial crisis, Citi was able to claim to be one of the biggest financial institutions in the world as a result of the takeovers it was permitted to make as a result of the legislative changes – including a move into investment banking by buying brokers Smith Barney and parts of Schroders.
  • (19) Barney Chilton, the editor, told the Guardian: "On the Red News forums the percentages have ebbed away from Moyes like the English coastline.
  • (20) England’s future still has promise, but Wayne Rooney is part of the past | Barney Ronay Read more But the surprise is that people are surprised.

Squabble


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To contend for superiority in an unseemly maner; to scuffle; to struggle; to wrangle; to quarrel.
  • (v. i.) To debate peevishly; to dispute.
  • (v. t.) To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry or are mixed and need careful readjustment; -- said of type that has been set up.
  • (n.) A scuffle; a wrangle; a brawl.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On Thursday the word in Brussels was there would be fresh elections in April, a ballot likely to entrench the divide, deepen the crisis of political accountability and legitimacy, and result in yet further months of government-less squabbling.
  • (2) But living in modern Britain feels like being one of a family of anxious, squabbling children whose parents have abandoned us to get drunk at the casino.
  • (3) What we are seeing is the government really squabbling over what is such an important and profound piece of legislation for our country, like kids in a schoolyard.” Shorten told reporters on Sunday the government’s citizenship laws were “rapidly descending into a farce”, and called on it to urgently release the text of the legislation so Labor could scrutinise it.
  • (4) Precisely how juvenile was, of course, open to yet more squabbling.
  • (5) My son’s Guyanese-Canadian teacher and the Muslim Milton scholar I went to high school with and the Sikh writer I squabble about Harold Innis with and my Ishmaeli accountant, we can all be good little Torontonians of the middle class, deflecting the differences we have been trained to respect.
  • (6) There is boardroom squabbling, the workforce is in open revolt and there are no new product lines.
  • (7) Nor are they exotic Mafia hits like the killing of Castellano; these are low-level whackings, often linked to squabbles over drugs.
  • (8) At the time they were stressful – battling with traffic, fights over radio stations, squabbles over who was going to sit in the front seat and listening to a muddle of languages together with drama lines and songs to be sung.
  • (9) "The squabbles will be bitter and vicious if the first salvoes in this war are anything to go by.
  • (10) Amid squabbles over boundary changes, mansion tax, Europe and the NHS, each of them was up for the fight.
  • (11) Momentum Hastings seems pleasantly free of the kind of dogmatic, acrimonious squabbles that have recently engulfed the movement at national level.
  • (12) Likewise, he feels, parenting is too important to fall foul of party political squabbles.
  • (13) We kids had obviously been squabbling and had been banned from making any noise or, "I'll stop the car and bang your heads together!"
  • (14) When superpowers and former superpowers squabble, lives are ruined.
  • (15) Preparatory talks last month in Bangkok ended in acrimonious squabbles .
  • (16) The same can't be said of our squabbles at the decade's end.
  • (17) She had lived for a long time in the shadow of her unfaithful husband, and, uninterested in the perennial squabbles of the Chilean left, the coup turned her into a significant political figure in her own right.
  • (18) A new body is to be elected to do the job, but with arguments raging over the place of Sharia law in that constitution, and with regional leaders squabbling for influence, there is no sign of when those elections will happen.
  • (19) If the experiment has been a disaster for Greece, it is also a colossal failure for Europe , with the result that at the very apex of leadership the EU nowadays resembles an unhappy assembly of squabbling politicians locked in what could not be called an “ever closer union”.
  • (20) From the lawn we could see nothing but tree tops and the only interruption to lazy mornings on the terrace was the noise of squabbling langur monkeys and green parrots.