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Example sentences for "tiff"

Lexicographically close words:
tierces; tiered; tierras; tiers; ties; tiffin; tiffs; tiful; tiga; tiger
  1. But the young one wasn't going to let him go so, an' him shot PUM and kill him 'tiff dead.

  2. Him beat him so till the goat form 'tiff dead.

  3. An' the King t'row himself off a him t'rone an' lie there 'tiff dead.

  4. Pierston expressed his doubts of the wisdom of this course, which seemed to make her desire it the more, and the result was a tiff between them.

  5. Ah--it is only a tiff between you, I dare say.

  6. He had just made up that nasty tiff with the English Court, arising out of the publication of the Pretender's manifesto.

  7. Stanislas is alleged to have fallen in with the Jesuit's counsels; hence that open tiff with Alliot over the stoppage of provisions, which made Voltaire complain that he had not been allowed "bread, wine and candles.

  8. The word tiff in connection with her tale had a peculiar savour, a paralysing effect.

  9. If you expect me to run all over London looking for you every time you happen to have a tiff with your auntie and cousins you are mistaken.

  10. We hope, however, that it was better than Tiff, for Tiff is undeniably tedious.

  11. If this 'Favourite Fiction' Series, in which Tiff appears, is to be continued, we would entreat the publisher to alter the type and the binding.

  12. Dull as Tiff is--and its dulness is quite remarkable--it does not deserve so detestable a binding.

  13. The title-page of Tiff informs us that it was written by the author of Lucy; or, a Great Mistake, which seems to us a form of anonymity, as we have never heard of the novel in question.

  14. For the moment he had forgotten his tiff with Philbin, had forgotten Philbin himself, and was all for rushing ahead on his idea-driven course to some unimaginable distance.

  15. It was in the second year of the great war, and it had been nearly five since he had gone away after his tiff with Savelle.

  16. This amazing display of tactful conversation, designed to take Edward's mind off any little tiff that he might have had with Edith, demanded some kind of appreciation from him.

  17. Perhaps there had been a little tiff over Edward's long-continued absence.

  18. Having done all she could in the matter of conciliating Mona and Roger, Patty bethought herself of her own little tiff with Philip Van Reypen.

  19. Seats all taken," declared Roger, who had had a real tiff with Mona on the subject of her new friend.

  20. I must have my tiff about the great Unknown.

  21. Come," he went on, "when is our tiff to begin?

  22. I went to school one week and my mother had to clean tiff to make a livin' for dem children and get grub so I had to go to work.

  23. We stayed dere free and I went out in de diggin's in de tiff at Valle Mines.

  24. We must have stayed about 3 years at Casey's after de freedom and den went to Mineral Point and worked for de tiff and mineral.

  25. I should have thought that tiff was over by this time.

  26. I should just like to see how you and she would act at your first meeting after the little tiff you had to-day.

  27. She told me that they had a bit of a tiff coming over on the Hailoong, and that she sauced him shamefully.

  28. In Marburg, the old university town, where I learned that tramps could earn fifty pfennigs an hour, when the professors of physiology wanted to have human specimens for their illustrations, I had my tiff with the omnipotent police.

  29. Perhaps he was arguing a deep polemical point with an imaginary adversary, and perhaps he was merely having a little tiff with the police.

  30. Had a little tiff with Cara," said Ellis in a half whisper, as he bent to the ear of his companion.

  31. A little tiff now and then is all well enough in its place.

  32. Why you seem to have got out of bed the wrong side this morning; or have you and Keegan been striking up some new tiff about the 'rints?

  33. Ah, well; I see you're out with me for the tiff we had this morning.

  34. There was a battle over that; a battle between her and Mrs. Selford, and a tiff between father and mother to boot.

  35. They were always either concealing the existence of a tiff or making one up, reconciling themselves with a good deal of display.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tiff" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.