What is "argued"

Usage examples of "argued".

I could see the men as they clustered around their fire, hear their voices as they argued.

And Gorlot appointed him,' I argued, not understanding his reluctance to indict the physician.

The two human scouts shouldn't have missed that in thirty days, Reeve argued.

I will say that I insisted on answering though you argued that the system was interdicted!

Some purists had always argued that a treaty promulgated through the linguistic precocity of a kid had to be defective.

The original premise, hammered into the Decision and later the Treaty - was, he argued, about to be invalidated if part of the planet was to be commercialized.

Lunzie argued that she needed as much refreshment as she could get to regain her skills.

It was a stupid policy, he argued, since one could be out of touch much longer than that in a large galaxy, and still be awake!

The rest of the time she listened and watched as they talked, argued, and gambled.

He had argued, pled, and finally come back to their assigned quarters glum as she'd never seen him before.

She didn't, but her taste buds argued with her, and more than once she found an excuse to ‘inspect’ the kitchens when he was baking.

She argued with herself, in the long nights, and carefully did not take a consoling drink.

She was commended for saving the children from the colony, and mildly scolded for not having saved the colony itself - although a dissenting comment argued that any such attempt would have been an unnecessary and reckless risk to her ship.

The Commissioner's comments about the humbleness with which he would travel argued for a keen sense of irony, at the least.

Caissa wondered that anyone could have survived such a crash but the emergency signal, faint though it was, argued that someone had.