(v. t.) An uproar; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl.
Example Sentences:
(1) The BBC dropped former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson following a fracas with show producer Oisin Tymon.
(2) As for Johnny Depp’s dogs, after the international fracas died down, Joyce was awarded the Froggatt award for principled decision making by the Invasive Species Council for “acting quickly and decisively” against actor Depp and his wife, Amber Heard, for allegedly bringing their Yorkshire terriers into Australia in breach of quarantine laws .
(3) Photograph: handout Molins said the perpetrator was known to police for a series of minor fracas over the past six years, including one violent altercation with another motorist earlier this year for which he received a suspended sentence.
(4) Dean had already booked Gabriel for his part in a fracas with Costa and when the defender flicked his foot at the Spain international, Dean ruled that it merited a straight red.
(5) Jonathan Arnott said the fracas placed a cloud over both Woolfe and Hookem: “Surely they can’t now consider that either of them could stand in a leadership contest.” Gerard Batten said he was disappointed Woolfe had left the meeting rather than answer questions over his flirtation with the Conservatives: “A Ukip MEP who is prepared to even discuss defection to another party is not fit to run as leader of Ukip.” Describing Thursday’s incident, Hookem said a meeting of Ukip MEPs had become heated when Woolfe, a contender to replace Diane James as party leader, was asked about his admission he had considered defecting to the Conservatives .
(6) In the middle of the fracas, unperturbed, a self-proclaimed holy man in a bright saffron woolly hat waved a legal petition.
(7) Amazon sought to address customers’ concerns about the Hachette fracas last month by pointing out that the publisher’s products represent a very small proportion of its sales.
(8) If you've been reading this newspaper or any other about the Senate's role in the healthcare fracas , I trust you do not need me to explain why.
(9) Nigel Farage had resigned; the frontrunner to replace him, Steven Woolfe, was hospitalised after a fracas ; and the eventual successor, Diane James, lasted 18 days at the top .
(10) It is not known whether Top Gear: From A to Z will include “F for fracas” – the description used by the BBC for the incident in which the presenter assaulted a producer.
(11) Two members of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society were lightly injured in the early morning fracas in heavy seas about 2,000 miles south-east of the Australian state of Tasmania, said Paul Watson, the group's leader.
(12) Luis Suárez is banned for the game at Cornellà-El Prat after he became involved in a fracas after the end of last week’s first leg at Camp Nou, during which Espanyol had two players sent off.
(13) Woolfe spent three nights in hospital after the fracas.
(14) Aston Villa’s Micah Richards suspended for one game after Swansea fracas Read more Garde had barely taken his seat when Danny Rose’s pass – hardly defence-splitting – down the left found Mousa Dembélé.
(15) The as-yet unnamed Amazon show, which was announced on Thursday, ended months of speculation after Clarkson was dropped by the BBC following a fracas with a producer.
(16) The star received widespread public support, including from his friend David Cameron, following the fracas, and 1 million people signed a petition calling on the BBC to reinstate him.
(17) A 68-year-old man died, reportedly after inhaling pepper spray during the fracas , and five people were arrested.
(18) Haye, who on Monday night had still not revealed his whereabouts, is yet to respond to widely circulated calls by the German police to return to Munich after fleeing the scene in the early hours of Sunday morning and to explain his part in a fracas that shamed their sport.
(19) There was an initial fracas between English fans and locals over tickets at around midnight.
(20) Trump’s opening fracas may have made for gripping television, but it was the unseemly start to a primetime TV debate that Republican party leaders had dreaded, overshadowing policy discussions over the Iran nuclear deal, immigration, healthcare and the economy.
Quarrel
Definition:
(n.) An arrow for a crossbow; -- so named because it commonly had a square head.
(n.) Any small square or quadrangular member
(n.) A square of glass, esp. when set diagonally.
(n.) A small opening in window tracery, of which the cusps, etc., make the form nearly square.
(n.) A square or lozenge-shaped paving tile.
(n.) A glazier's diamond.
(n.) A four-sided cutting tool or chisel having a diamond-shaped end.
(n.) A breach of concord, amity, or obligation; a falling out; a difference; a disagreement; an antagonism in opinion, feeling, or conduct; esp., an angry dispute, contest, or strife; a brawl; an altercation; as, he had a quarrel with his father about expenses.
(n.) Ground of objection, dislike, difference, or hostility; cause of dispute or contest; occasion of altercation.
(n.) Earnest desire or longing.
(v. i.) To violate concord or agreement; to have a difference; to fall out; to be or become antagonistic.
(v. i.) To dispute angrily, or violently; to wrangle; to scold; to altercate; to contend; to fight.
(v. i.) To find fault; to cavil; as, to quarrel with one's lot.
(v. t.) To quarrel with.
(v. t.) To compel by a quarrel; as, to quarrel a man out of his estate or rights.
(n.) One who quarrels or wrangles; one who is quarrelsome.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Belfast, the old quarrels just look likely to drag on in their old familiar way.
(2) I have no quarrel with the overall thrust of Andrew Rawnsley's argument that the south-east is over-dominant in the UK economy and, as someone who has lived and worked both in Cardiff and Newcastle upon Tyne, I have sympathy with the claims of the north-east of England as well as Wales (" No wonder the coalition hasn't many friends in the north ", Comment).
(3) This quarrel split the black movement down the middle, and was compounded by Du Bois's ideas on leadership.
(4) The pair departed La Liga last summer, only to quarrel again at Chelsea and Manchester City.
(5) Berezovsky, a Kremlin insider in the days of Boris Yeltsin, left Russia in 2000 after a quarrel with Vladimir Putin and has been the subject of an extradition order by Russia .
(6) Premeditated murders are also rare in Finland (roughly 40 per year), but homicides sadly occur out of quarrels between socially marginalised drunken adult men.
(7) It's a quarrel between substance and form, if you like, a question of emphasis – does a country's nature owe most to its history, or to its land?
(8) It fell to Van Rompuy to deal with quarrelling national leaders over the EU's worst ever crisis – the euro, the sovereign debt and financial turmoil.
(9) But American conservatives for the most part have had no quarrel with vaccines – unless they are on a collision course with other deeply held beliefs, said John Evans, who teaches bioethics at the University of California at San Diego and is married to Schreiber.
(10) Although Arendt agreed with the final verdict of the trial, namely, that Eichmann should be condemned to death, she quarreled with the reasoning put forward at the trial and with the spectacle of the trial itself.
(11) While we are rooted here going la-la-la auld Ireland (because at this distance in time the words escape us) our neighbours are patching their quarrels, losing their origins and moving on, to modern, non-sectarian forms of stigma, expressed in modern songs: you are a scouser, a dirty scouser.
(12) The quarrels he had with most of his subordinates culminated as he was in command of the East Indies Squadron, applying sometimes exaggerated punishments.
(13) The few big publishers that now continue functioning at all under the deliberately destructive pressure of Amazon marketing strategies are increasingly controlled by that pressure.” The tech giant is not only trying to control the bookselling industry but also the publishing world, she writes: “Amazon uses the BS Machine to sell us sweetened fat to live on, so we begin to think that’s what literature is.” She assures her readers that her “only quarrel with Amazon is when it comes to how they market books and how they use their success in marketing to control not only bookselling, but book publication: what we write and what we read.” She stressed that she has no issue with other areas of the tech giant’s business, including self-publishing: “Amazon and I are not at war.
(14) A case of a 35-year-old male who died suddenly after a blow on the chest by his opponent during a quarrel.
(15) They never subsequently claimed exclusive credit, and never quarrelled.
(16) By the 1970's the quarrel shifted from affective questions to matters of effectiveness and efficiency.
(17) Establishment outrage reached spittingly aggressive proportions when Ali, pleading deferment on religious grounds, told reporters: “I ain’t got no quarrel with them Vietcong … no Vietcong ever called me ‘nigger’.” Within an hour, outraged, all US boxing bodies suspended his licence and stripped him of his title.
(18) I was brought up in a culture that shied away from argument because wherever there is quarrelling there will sooner or later be murder.
(19) But Quo Vadis laid bare an inhibition possibly implanted in his schooldays or by his quarrelling parents; he could not portray passionate feelings without looking foolish.
(20) One rhetorical feature of her book on Eichmann is that she is, time and again, breaking out into a quarrel with the man himself.