Sentence examples for be a contentious form from inspiring English sources

This can be a contentious form of shark ecotourism: stories abound of unscrupulous charter boats toying with sharks, encouraging "mouth-gaping" and publicising sharks as "man-eaters".

Troemel was a contentious figure on campus.

The general is a contentious figure, even among historians.

Cons Development can be a contentious issue.

Sex work can be a contentious topic.

What Orr never explicitly states--because it's a contentious argument, the subject of passionate debate over recent decades--is the idea that form drives meaning.

Patterson is a contentious victor.

THE Japanese cabinet is a contentious lot.

This is a contentious point.

This is a contentious move.

Stirring is a contentious issue.