Sentence examples for a sort of verbal from inspiring English sources

The justices of late have been jostling for judicial airtime in a sort of verbal roller derby.

The current court is a sort of verbal firing squad, with the justices peppering lawyers with questions almost as soon as they begin their presentations.

With short, declarative sentences, Doctorow creates a sort of verbal daguerreotype of New Rochelle: "There seemed to be no entertainment that did not involve great swarms of people.

"If you're presenting your own ideas, reaching out in a sort of verbal assault, that is a pure expression of yourself.

"There seems to be a virus going around on television," e-mails Olivia Hugill, "that causes people to make a sort of verbal parenthesis and insert the term if you will.

Vagueness of circumstance is matched by archness of language, in a sort of verbal minuet of staccato assertion and challenge: CATHY: I hope that I've learned to be reasonable.

A: Sort of.

It was such an honest burst of emotions, and yet she wasn't able to get any sort of verbal response from him.

They have no moral compass, only impulse, and their syntactical stammer, a sort of lazy verbal shorthand — "No biggie," "Worry about it," " 'Kay," "The fuck outta here" — broadcasts their intellectual vacuum.

We have an awkward exchange, a sort of pre-interview verbal fumble.

In a sort of three-card monte of verbal manipulation, a group of Chicago real-estate brokers fight to get the leads, get ahead of each other, close the sale, and get on the board.