How to Use shouting match in a Sentence

shouting match

noun
  • The chairman then broke up the shouting match.
    — Cate Martel, The Hill, 16 Sep. 2025
  • That’s when Hynes called Samuels-Thomas over for a shouting match.
    — Michael Russo, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Charlie Kirk death sparks shouting match on the House floor.
    — Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • When Democrats protested and asked about the victims of a school shooting in Colorado earlier on Wednesday, a shouting match broke out.
    — Zachary Folk, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • And that explosive screening Avary claims to have heard about, the one where Kubrick supposedly got into a shouting match with studio execs?
    — Lane Brown, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2025
  • His behavior was so grating that even host Rece Davis, the normally stoic straightman, got into a shouting match with Kiper.
    — Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The hearing lasted over five hours, with nearly every round of questioning from a Democrat reverting to a monologue from the questioner or a shouting match.
    — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 11 Feb. 2026
  • According to the book, the couple had gotten into a shouting match, with Scorsese throwing a glass of red wine across at the room at Minnelli, which smashed on a chandelier.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Still, the press conference between the two leaders went far better than their last encounter in the Oval Office in February, which ended in a shouting match.
    — Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The action got heated on the ice during the men’s curling contest between Canada and Sweden on Friday, resulting in a shouting match between the two sides.
    — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Freeman’s wife, Joanna, was also accused of getting into a shouting match with Fleeger before police intervened, according to the paper.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Freeman’s wife, Joanna, was also accused of getting into a shouting match with Fleeger before police intervened, according to the paper.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Yesterday, in men’s curling, a shouting match erupted after Team Sweden accused Canada of cheating for allegedly touching the stone after it’d been released.
    — The Sports Desk, NBC news, 14 Feb. 2026
  • In another acrimonious scene the same day, a conversation between a Republican congressman and the leader of House Democrats devolved into a shouting match.
    — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The council has reconvened since, but tensions between the mayor, council and the community escalated and included the mayor’s firing of the city’s fire chief; his veto of the council’s vote to reappoint the city clerk; and a Monday meeting that devolved, within minutes, into a shouting match.
    — Nick El Hajj, Des Moines Register, 20 Mar. 2026
  • There’s also Kenneth Weisman, who once represented the rapper Lil Pump after airport security in Miami accused Pump of having marijuana in his bag, resulting in a shouting match.
    — Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The president attending lunch on Capitol Hill that same day with Senate Republicans, reportedly getting into a shouting match with Senator Bill Cassidy over support for the war in Iran.
    — NBC news, 28 June 2026
  • Trump’s comments followed an increasingly bitter meeting with Senate Republicans that erupted into a shouting match behind closed doors on Wednesday, as the President angrily confronted members of his own party over the Senate’s vote rebuking his handling of the war in Iran.
    — Nik Popli, Time, 24 June 2026

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