Examples of “argument” in a Sentence

noun A reason or set of reasons given to support a conclusion.

• Her argument was persuasive enough to change my mind.
• His argument for a shorter working week was based on clear evidence.
• I couldn't find a single good argument against the plan.

noun A heated disagreement between people.

• They had a huge argument over whose turn it was to cook.
• The neighbors had a loud argument over the garden fence.
• We had an argument about where to go on holiday.

noun In computing, a value passed into a function or command.

• The function takes two arguments: a name and an age.
• You must pass the file name as an argument when running the script.
• The command fails if you leave out the required argument.