"verbal fight" is correct and usable in written English.
It may be used to refer to a heated argument or exchange of insults between parties. For example, "The couple got into a verbal fight over who was responsible for the broken plate."
The jury voted a small settlement in her favor, but did not agree until a verbal fight had ensued.
A 19-year-old woman was shot and killed by her boyfriend after a verbal fight on Detroit's east side Saturday morning.
The 65-year old bassist and lyricist spent the night in jail after a verbal fight was said to turn physical in a Death Valley national park bar.
I had been trying to appreciate happy moments in my life, but that didn't stop me from getting into a verbal fight with a mechanic, who became so angry that he threatened to have me arrested.
In that horrifying instant last Wednesday, a verbal fight swiftly escalated into violence in a Staten Island firehouse, officials say, leaving one firefighter on a respirator in a hospital and another under arrest, his career in peril.
India's ruling Congress Party, the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the debutant Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) are locked in a fierce verbal fight to attract voters in the general elections.
Too many verbal fights are regrettable to say the least.
Verbal fights, bad-neighbors' style, erupt all the time, between the lawyers' teams, as well as between the defense lawyers and the judge.
Those who vent are more likely to engage in physical and verbal fights and to drive recklessly.
The homeless there are creating an unsafe environment for the surrounding businesses and neighbors when they are intoxicated or engage in physical and verbal fights, the report states.
