Sentence examples for spar verbally from inspiring English sources

You're trying to spar verbally with a New Yorker".

Now, after sparring physically on the court, we begin to spar verbally in the way of jocks.

Rahm Emanuel spent his formative years outside Chicago, in the wealthy North Shore suburb of Wilmette, where his parents — as has now been mythologized — trained him and his brothers to spar verbally and come at life aggressively.

They sparred verbally for a minute.

"He'd be that end and I'd be this end, sparring verbally with each other".

In practice that day, Shockey and Short had sparred verbally on the field.

In a boxing gym in San Francisco on a recent Sunday afternoon, a trainee and his coach sparred, verbally and physically.

One of the protesters who sparred verbally with pro-China groups in Trafalgar Square was David Phillips, a 25-year-old American from Austin, Tex., who said he had worked for six months at the American Embassy in Beijing.

He exploded on the public scene with a series of nationally televised fights that gave the public an exciting new champion, and he entertained millions as he sparred verbally with the likes of bombastic sportscaster Howard Cosell.

These two couples under tremendous stress meet awkwardly at home and in town, sparring verbally as they dance around the disease that stalks them and the disease of unease that can sneak into a marriage.

"Roger is somebody who likes to verbally spar," Mr. Kidd says.