"verbal war" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It is typically used to describe a heated or intense exchange of words or arguments between two or more people. Example: The political debate turned into a verbal war as the candidates attacked each other's policies and personal backgrounds.
Mr Orban has been at verbal war with the EU since 2010.
That sparked a verbal war, which showed no sign of dying down heading into tonight's game.
"But it makes no sense for me to get into a verbal war with the owner of another team," he said.
In that game, Scott engaged in a brief shoving match and then a longer verbal war against the Jazz's Karl Malone, telling Malone he had no heart.
By Hendrik Hertzberg The New Yorker, September 9 , 1996P. 4 Signed comment about the verbal war for political domination & about the Democratic and Republican national conventions..
6 Conflicting Views on Iraq The world is responding to the Bush administration's verbal war against Iraq with statements that contain more skepticism and disapproval than support.
Finally all those verbal wars Franco fought with his neighborhood friends would be played out.
Moreover, Israel and Iran have historically only ever entered into wars by proxy and verbal wars.
Another example, dare I say it that the use of the word tranny in the cis-gendered gay male and drag community means something different to many in the transgender community and the triggers, anger and verbal wars have been rampant.
Punishment or corrections are needed/deserved for certain misconduct (including minor and major crime, but allow the law to handle it, by not having unnecessary personal, physical or verbal wars).
Mr. Obama seems to want to avoid stoking an unnecessary verbal civil war.
