Sentence examples for mock arguments from inspiring English sources

Mock arguments could be built up in defense of preposterous definitions.

Posey in particular seemed barely able to sit still, or resist luring Hoechlin into mock arguments in the "Shut up/No, you shut up" vein.

Last week, there were so many of the mock arguments that lawyers call moot courts that they threatened to exhaust something that had never been thought in short supply: Washington lawyers willing to pretend to be Supreme Court justices.

At each table were other brides, most in skimpy bridal costumes complete with mock veils, throwing back shots and getting into bawdy mock arguments with the drag queens, who trafficked in insult humor.

By the 15th century the Inns of Court were governed by their benchers, who had previously given at least two courses of lectures (readings) and who presided over mock arguments (moots) in which students argued difficult points of law before them.

I can picture Dad and Granddad in the garage, carrying on their annual mock argument about the relative merits of peanut oil and lard.

Over the years, Child has, with her customary charm, set up a fun-poking mock argument between herself and newfangled critics about her copious use of butter and cream in "Mastering".

At the end of the street, stage a mock argument and pretend to all bust up and go home your separate ways.

If you're hanging out with good friends and are in the middle of a mock-argument, try softly hitting or pushing each other.

But he mocked Republicans' arguments that the approval of the pipeline, which would carry oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast, would create many jobs in the United States.

The relatives angrily mocked the arguments of Mr. Taylor's lawyers, who had said that he had suffered from a deprived and difficult childhood, and that his four children loved and needed him.