quarreling

Shanghai issued a notice stating that Zhang had been arrested and detained for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.”

This May, she was arrested for a vague charge of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.”

The comprehensive history of this quarrel — and the question of why anyone cares about it — has filled books and occupied historians, critics, and cinephiles to a degree that can seem baffling from the outside.

She went missing on May 14, and the following day security officials issued a notice stating that Zhang had been arrested and detained for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.”

Some who heard the victim shouting thought it was a lovers’ quarrel.

Then I see all those couples quarreling in Bed, Bath, and Beyond.

A young man who supports the NRA and enjoys public quarrels with strangers walked up and started quarreling.

Most recently, members of the American Psychiatric Association are quarreling about whether grief is a disease entity—depression.

"Children, stop your quarreling," commanded Bertha Brown, sternly.

"You are too hard and stiff," said the Scarecrow, and this was as near to quarreling as the two friends ever came.

She was always cross, and she never passed a day without quarreling and flying into furious tempers.

We are told that on another occasion he found some Marblehead fishermen and Virginia riflemen quarreling.

We have more serious things to think of than quarreling in our conversation.