Examples of tiff in a Sentence
Noun
got into a little tiff about what color sheets to buy for their bed
Verb
like any couple, they occasionally tiff, but it's never anything serious
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Andrea Wurzburger, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
Returning home from some opening or other one evening, Marta (Rohrwacher) and her partner Antonio (Elio Germano) get into an apparently familiar argument — more of a tiff really — that for some reason this time escalates towards a different end, with Antonio moving out.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
During the second quarter of the 44-13 win, Williams got into a tiff with Saints guard Torricelli Simpkins III after the latter pushed him in the back.
—Anne Erickson, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Sep. 2025
Thinking back to her 12-show stint as an opener for *NSYNC during 2001’s PopOdyssey tour, Gibson recalled getting into a tiff with the boy band’s management team about wanting to use her own piano for her set.
—Mark Gray, People.com, 10 Sep. 2025
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Noun
The Kardashian-Jenner sisters were at it again on season 19, when the family took a quick trip to Palm Springs, Calif.. After having a tiff over an outfit, Kendall and Kylie really got into it on the drive home to L.A.
—Andrea Wurzburger, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
Returning home from some opening or other one evening, Marta (Rohrwacher) and her partner Antonio (Elio Germano) get into an apparently familiar argument — more of a tiff really — that for some reason this time escalates towards a different end, with Antonio moving out.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
During the second quarter of the 44-13 win, Williams got into a tiff with Saints guard Torricelli Simpkins III after the latter pushed him in the back.
—Anne Erickson, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Sep. 2025
Thinking back to her 12-show stint as an opener for *NSYNC during 2001’s PopOdyssey tour, Gibson recalled getting into a tiff with the boy band’s management team about wanting to use her own piano for her set.
—Mark Gray, People.com, 10 Sep. 2025
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“Tiff.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tiff. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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