Sentence examples for slightly contentious from inspiring English sources

As soon as anything even slightly contentious happens, you can feel the controversy coming.

The installation of smart meters has been slightly contentious in Texas, but not nearly as controversial as it has been in California, the other major smart-meter state.

That was why Sky News – and some slightly contentious figuring about audience shares – was all that Ofcom was able to consider in its first report, which recommended referring the bid to the Competition Commission.

It is actually refreshing to watch here a slightly contentious relationship and a son who is trying to unravel the enigma every mother is in the end to her kids, the beauties and the beasts included.

This however, is slightly contentious as magnesium supplementation during treatment of pre-eclampsia and seizures, has been shown to oppose calcium-dependent arterial constriction and may antagonize the increase in intracellular calcium concentration.

It was a somewhat contentious conference call.

When Bobby Womack recorded an album of pure country in the late 1960s he originally wanted to call it Step Aside, Charley Pride, Give Another Nigger a Try, before his record company persuaded him that BW Goes C&W might be a slightly less contentious title.

(And it's captured on YouTube -- along with a slightly more contentious exchange).