Sentence examples for sort of verbal from inspiring English sources

The coach at Carolina usually hears that sort of verbal abuse once a decade.

Calling out the Yankees, minutes after the team was reminded to avoid that sort of verbal pothole, was senseless.

Is it conceivable that the US would ever deliver that sort of verbal smackdown to Israel in the real world?

Why do we think excelling in this sort of verbal roughhouse is a qualification for the presidency?

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

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

It was right to tell so few colleagues of Helen's death from cancer but it doesn't insulate me from this sort of unintended verbal evisceration.

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.

And that "Eh" is really an "Ennhhhh," a form of verbal punctuation that means all sorts of things from resolve to surprise, rue to furious despair.

"[O]ne of the things that we've learned is that, if we design these robots to communicate with us using the same body language, the same sort of non-verbal cues that people use what we find is that people respond to robots a lot like they respond to people," said Cynthia Breazeal, director of MIT's personal robots group, in a 2010 TED Talk about Leonardo and other social robots.

Paul said polls became part of "a self-reinforcing news cycle because of the celebrity nature that goes on, on and on", though he accepted that voters might "at a superficial level be attracted to bombast, insults, junior high sort of lobbing of verbal bombs that kind of stuff".