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Sentences with fractious

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  • ...fractious national movements.
  • A fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
  • In the notoriously fractious world of hospitality, there are many putting family ties to the test.
  • Sandra O'Malley Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull is facing an increasingly fractious back bench that is refusing to toe the line on emissions trading.
  • An incorrigibly fractious young man.
  • Flair and invention were very much at a premium, suffocated by the relentless pace and often fractious nature of proceedings. The absence of James Morrison from the centre of Scotland’s midfield, the West Brom man ruled out on the morning of the game by illness, had already diminished the creative capacity of the home side in that department.
  • Although, we have all been on aircraft where there is a fractious baby howling for hours on end, much to it's parents embarrassment.
  • Fractious is sometimes wrongly used where factious is meant: this factious (not fractious) dispute has split the party still further
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