Sentence examples for contentious relationships from inspiring English sources

Leona had contentious relationships with almost everybody (except Harry).

Other couples in these stories have more overly contentious relationships, their disputes heightened by class snobberies and clashing attitudes toward assimilation.

Then, aboard the spaceship, the international crew members replicate, in their contentious relationships and seething distrust, the conflicts brewing between nations on Earth over access to energy sources.

Knight was jovial with reporters today, in contrast to the sometimes contentious relationships he has held with the news media throughout his career.

Since November, Jacob Dresden at Collegiate and Mary Jane Yurchak at the Hewitt School, both of whom had contentious relationships with their boards, have announced their departures.

Those commodities were in short supply during the Bivens regime, which was marked by loss of sponsors and contentious relationships with longtime constituents.

The director describes a "playfully contentious relationship".

It's not a continually contentious relationship".

Mr. Ward has had a contentious relationship with the firefighters' union.

The two men have had a contentious relationship.

Theirs is a cordial but often contentious relationship.