CONFLICTING in a Sentence

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195 example sentences for CONFLICTING, such as:
1. The local war escalated into a major conflict.
2. The debate is centred around two conflicting theories.
3. It is sometimes impossible to avoid conflict altogether.
4. A thousand conflicting thoughts rushed through his mind.
5. There are conflicting claims about the cause of the fire.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of CONFLICTING
conflicting
 a.  on bad terms
 a.  in disagreement
Classic Sentence: (78 in 6 pages)
1  It was the same conflicting emotion that made her desire to appear a delicate and high-bred lady with boys and to be, as well, a hoyden who was not above a few kisses.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  With this backwash of wounded bearing conflicting reports and the increase of frightened refugees crowding into the already crowded town, Atlanta was in an uproar.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  The Bureau was backed up by the soldiers and the military had issued many and conflicting orders governing the conduct of the conquered.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
4  There was too great a tumult of conflicting ideas in her mind for her to sort them out.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
5  She came out of her several conflicting poses, and said sincerely, "There's a new teacher, Miss Mullins, who might have some talent."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
6  But among the conflicting sensations which assailed her, there was neither shame nor remorse.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXVIII
7  The Huron chief, after casting the weapons he had wrested from his companions over the rock, drew his knife, and turned to his captive, with a look in which conflicting passions fiercely contended.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
8  Thus a prey to the conflicting movements of his thoughts, he dropped his head.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER III—THE EXTREME EDGE
9  One has been surrounded with conflicting ideas which had human faces; one's head has been in the light of the future.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—THE VULTURE BECOME PREY
10  The very violence of all these conflicting emotions forced him to it.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—JAVERT
11  In order to make one's way amid these turbulent and conflicting waves, it was necessary to be an officer, a great noble, or a pretty woman.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 2 THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TREVILLE
12  She longed to bid me hasten my return; a thousand conflicting emotions rendered her mute as she bade me a tearful, silent farewell.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
13  Now much disturbed, and dazzled with conflicting gleams of hope and dread, I looked at her for some explanation.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 50. Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE
14  In the troubled waters of conflicting and intersecting intrigues that eddied about the Emperor's headquarters, it was possible to succeed in many ways unthinkable at other times.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IX
15  Of late, since the Emperor's return from the army, there had been some excitement in these conflicting salon circles and some demonstrations of hostility to one another, but each camp retained its own tendency.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence: (117 in 8 pages)
1  The debate is centred around two conflicting theories.
2  There are conflicting claims about the cause of the fire.
3  A thousand conflicting thoughts rushed through his mind.
4  A Fed chair has to fulfill two, often conflicting, statutory expectations, and be ready for his or her every word to be minced by the market.
5  Given the heavy damage inflicted on many islands in the archipelago nation, it is not surprising that conflicting reports and erroneous information have occasionally found their way into the reporting chain.
6  Aumann showed that peaceful cooperation can emerge in a repeated game, even when the players have strong short-term conflicting interests.
7  Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.
8  The UN must perform a difficult balancing act between the two sides in the conflict.
9  It is conflict and not unquestioning agreement that deeps freedom alive.
10  But local attorney Bill Risner raises a potential problem for Scott on the governance side of the conflict equation.
11  The boy pulled the boat's head round in order to avoid the conflict with the boat in front of him.
12  Both the Americans and the Russians are anxious to avoid conflict in South Asia.
13  It is sometimes impossible to avoid conflict altogether.
14  The local war escalated into a major conflict.
15  She found herself in conflict with her parents over her future career.