Sentence examples for verbal duel from inspiring English sources
All but challenging Wikipedia to a verbal duel, the organizations said in a news release that the series would "be the definitive account of human civilization".
"No Mother what?" Rose seized any occasion for a mental test, a verbal duel — why miss what was there for the taking?
The subject was the weather, but it turned into a verbal duel that captured their tense relationship in images of wind, clouds and rain.
So this trial, like the first, became a verbal duel between prosecution and defense to build a negative image of each man for the jury.
It is resolved by a verbal duel in which a fiery speech from Shaw's "Saint Joan" (which we don't hear on the CD) goes up against Shakespeare's song from "Cymbeline" (sung by Davis Gaines).
The film is a verbal duel between two gifted performers, with Mr. Beach's psychiatrist representing the uplifting, humanist tradition and Mr. La Salle's enigmatic intruder standing in for the dark side, playing on human pain and disappointment.
Men enjoy verbal dueling.
Three minutes of verbal dueling later, Jesse is planted on her sofa looking anguished and joyful.
His personal problems began with the nightly verbal duels he felt he had to fight with those opposed to the show.
His comments came one day after Francisco Guzmán of President Enrique Peña Nieto's office told reporters that the government would not engage in verbal duels with US candidates.
And they also had their shāʿirs, professionally trained oral poets who defended the group's honour, expressed its identity, and engaged in verbal duels with the poets of other groups.
