How to Use dustup in a Sentence

dustup

noun
  • He had a dustup with a guy in the bar.
  • Read all about the dustup here.
    — Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 12 Sep. 2025
  • There is no reason to mention Yoko as the prime mover in this dustup.
    — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Hilaria was annoyed by his many dustups with the press and tried to make peace.
    — Reeves Wiedeman, Vulture, 12 July 2024
  • The group and the school both say that anyone who is seeking a dustup is not welcome.
    — Katy Steinmetz, Time, 5 Sep. 2017
  • The two episodes this season brought to mind other high-profile dustups.
    — Howard Fendrich, chicagotribune.com, 11 Dec. 2017
  • However, that doesn't mean there aren't dustups during a stop in play.
    — Pete Grathoff, kansascity, 17 May 2018
  • The Braves led 4-2 when the dustup occurred.
    — CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The dustup happened Friday with less than a second left in the game.
    — Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The coach and his entire team ended up forfeiting the game over the dustup.
    — Chris Branch, New York Times, 20 May 2026
  • But who will lose most when the proverbial dust from the dustup finally settles?
    — Josh Meyer, USA Today, 7 June 2025
  • He was ejected for a dustup with Metcalf two seasons ago.
    — Noah Furtado, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Dec. 2025
  • The White House, of course, said Padilla was to blame for the dustup.
    — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 15 June 2025
  • The second half ground almost to a halt with a few minor dustups for fouls and arguments.
    — Braidon Nourse, Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2026
  • But the dustup goes much deeper than those two prohibitions.
    — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Moving on from the fighting and the bad blood seems doable, as the hottest online dustups can get very cold rather quickly.
    — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 13 Sep. 2024
  • But even then that dustup lacks a satisfying catfight spark.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The ensuing dustup in the goal crease left the Ducks with a brief two-man advantage.
    — Andrew Knoll, Orange County Register, 4 Feb. 2025
  • It’s been a full week, but even with the passage of time, this dustup doesn’t look any better – for anyone involved.
    — Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Kitchens didn’t see the dustup -- the offense was working on a different field than the defense.
    — Dan Labbe, cleveland.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • To Washington, the dustups are the sort of tough love the continent needs.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 21 Feb. 2026
  • This all comes amid the latest dustup between Cox and Carlson.
    — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Apr. 2022
  • The dustup occurred after Abreu was hit by a pitch for the 21st time this season.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Sep. 2021
  • And the headline bombshells continue in the who-did-what-when mortgage dustups.
    — Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • And the headline bombshells continue in the who-did-what-when mortgage dustups.
    — Susan Tompor, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The private club has, of course, already inspired a bit of a dustup in the West Village.
    — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 2 Sep. 2025
  • With that, what might have been a small dustup turned into a full-on war that reached far beyond Wheaton’s students and alumni.
    — Emma Green, The New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Phoenix time in the same arena where Friday's outcome and postgame dustup is bond to carry over into the third matchup.
    — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 10 Dec. 2022
  • The fact that #pokimane trended at all made the Anys-Vail dustup news, ripe for reactions.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 31 July 2020
  • Despite the dustup, New Hampshire Democrats came through for Biden.
    — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2024

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