How to Use tiff in a Sentence

tiff

noun
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  • That’s when the tiff started in the bottom of the fourth.
    — John Fay, The Enquirer, 30 Aug. 2020
  • Will the age-gap police on Twitter be in a tiff over this?
    — Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2021
  • The tiff with the governor turned Jones, 31, into a cause célèbre.
    — Patricia Mazzei New York Times, Star Tribune, 12 Dec. 2020
  • The tiff with the governor turned Ms. Jones, 31, into a cause célèbre.
    — New York Times, 11 Dec. 2020
  • So a tiff over web design brings elephant and flea jokes to mind.
    — Deanna Isaacs, Chicago Reader, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The women’s absence was due to a tiff with Princess, TMZ reports.
    — Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • For other economies, this new trade tiff is also a headache.
    — Jane Li, Quartz, 26 Aug. 2019
  • In his tiff with Koepka, winning might be the final word.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2021
  • Randall even brought up Gordon's substance in the tiff.
    — Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland.com, 9 Dec. 2017
  • Buy things that reflect good taste, but don’t go overboard with spending and cause a tiff with your mate.
    — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 19 Dec. 2020
  • If the Heat were to suspend Dewayne for his tiff with Spoelstra, there would be no rebate on the salary cap or tax.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2023
  • On May 28th, two very online know-it-alls got into a tiff on Twitter.
    — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 13 June 2023
  • So roughly this $13 billion trade tiff is full on between the U.S. and Canada.
    — Fox News, 3 July 2018
  • The tiff with Corker is a classic Trump fight — public, brash and with a member of his own party.
    — Jonathan Allen, NBC News, 11 Oct. 2017
  • The state is currently courting Amazon and and experts say the tiff with Delta could keep the tech giant away.
    — Adam K. Raymond, Daily Intelligencer, 2 Mar. 2018
  • And if that only took a little of the luster off Nolan’s legacy, his tiff with Jon Daniels applied the tarnish.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 11 May 2021
  • Britain and France even sent gunboats into the English Channel last month in a tiff over fishing rights.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2021
  • Too Faced collaboration)—and clearly isn't letting the shadow of the social media tiff get in the way of her—and our—excitement about the new palette.
    — Rachel Nussbaum, Glamour, 25 Apr. 2017
  • Jazz coach Quin Snyder, who has been the voice of reason inside and outside of the locker room, downplayed the Gobert-Mitchell tiff.
    — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2021
  • For that reason, maybe the Rock-Smith tiff could pump up a little extra interest next year.
    — Bill Carter For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 29 Mar. 2022
  • But the court is also where the impetuous teen gets into a tiff with a local gangster, with whom Will ends up in jail overnight.
    — Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2022
  • But the Lindley-Landry tiff was just one symptom of this underperforming unit, and the proof is in the statistics.
    — cleveland, 7 Dec. 2019
  • Pisces February 19 – March 20 A fresh tiff on social media could have deep roots.
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The 1987 crash proved soon enough that investors were ready to panic if trade partners (Germany and the U.S.) got into a serious tiff.
    — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2018
  • But sadly, for the last decade or so, Cyrus's tiffs haven't been the fun, intra-celebrity kind, but the personal, family kind.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The grain tiff plays directly to a key constituency of the ruling party: farmers.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The two had actually gotten into a tiff on their way to the airport and TSA almost ruined the surprise.
    — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 26 June 2020
  • Related Though the first debate was mostly cordial, a few tiffs broke out—and some of them continued after the event.
    — Tarini Parti and Eliza Collins, WSJ, 27 June 2019
  • Shepard Smith broke a contract to leave early weeks after a public tiff with Carlson.
    — David Bauder, Star Tribune, 23 Aug. 2020
  • Many of the journalists suspended were tweeting about Musk’s tiff with Sweeney, whom the billionaire threatened to sue.
    — Scott Nover, Quartz, 16 Dec. 2022

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