English example sentences with "fractious"

A fractious child is a troublesome thing to deal with, but a fractious man is far worse.

You're as fractious as Tom.

To him, in his present fractious mood, she dared whisper no observations, nor ask of him any information.

The U.S. Senate, in a rare bipartisan vote of approval in politically fractious Washington, adopted Tuesday a $1 trillion infrastructure plan to fix the country’s deteriorating roads and bridges and expand broadband internet service.