Sentence examples for little contentious from inspiring English sources

It was a really good living situation, but also a little contentious at times.

During baseball season, the local bar scene can get a little contentious, the listing agent said.

He said he had insisted that Mr. Rove be pulled out of a meeting on the issue and that they had had a telephone conversation that was "a little contentious".

I know it might be a little contentious, but still.

When [dancers] want to be sarcastic every once in awhile, when things will be a little contentious, they always say that "square dancing is friendship set to music".

When it does, messages may become a little more contentious, or even divisive.

Film makers today, however, have little stomach for contentious issues.

There's very little of anything contentious in High Wycombe today".

Yet little in that contentious battle subjected him to the kind of outcry that his reference to religious courts unleashed.

Manager Nathan McGough (arrogant Scouse son of ex-Scaffolder Roger McGough) does, however, keep his appointment with the panel hosted by Tony Wilson entitled "Wake Up America, You're Dead", a contentious little title if ever there was one.

For without an understanding of how such control could be exercised, the endorsement of an actional view of deciding might depend on little more than contentious claims about phenomenology or, worse, on prior commitments regarding free will.