Sentence examples for insults back and forth from inspiring English sources

Ewe drummers are known to hold insult contests, shooting insults back and forth using specially tuned drums.

When they ran against each other, in 1992, there were a lot of insults back and forth, and the relationship was always testy thereafter.

Sergeant Gittens said two large groups of people about 15 to 25 years of age began tossing insults back and forth.

— It is lunchtime in the cafeteria of the Henry Viscardi School in Nassau County, and two eighth graders are doing what boys their age do best: batting insults back and forth.

Their marriage is a war of attrition that has settled into an ugly stalemate; they spend their days hurling insults back and forth in a ritual so shopworn that their lethal zingers have lost the power to wound.

How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company!" In the venerable African-American game of "the dozens," the players hurl monstrous insults back and forth as they try to rip each other apart with words.

Lewd language and insults flew back and forth, racist and homophobic epithets were brazenly tossed around, sexual conquests were described -- all while naming names.

In Aristophanes, too, ugly insults fly back and forth, jokes about the immoral behaviour of Other People, whether they're women, lechers, drunkards, wimps or foreigners.

But there is a basic difference: the taunts and insults batted back and forth between rappers have occasionally turned into real-world violence, as when a shootout erupted between the entourage of Lil' Kim and supporters of her rival Foxy Brown in 2001 outside the offices of the hip-hop station Hot 97, WQHT-FM.

Meaninglessly macho dialogue and insults fly back and forth between the cop and criminal as if they mean to murder each other with their words.

For as long as humans have been on this Earth, human-ing it up, we've had no shortage of insults thrown back and forth at one another.