backchat

Example Sentences

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Any backchat on the field is given a 10-metre move penalty.

From BBC • Oct. 12, 2022

The Irish-born Reynolds renders this gritty backchat with perfection, ranging from the “meet-my-sinuses accent” of a middle-class aspirant to the officious, singsong delivery of a country-born policeman with a voice “six-foot deep in bog.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2018

If someone one position above you asks you to do something, you do it: there’s no backchat.

From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2017

Thus have I written online about the exaltations and lamentations of parenthood: potty training, ruined sleep, baffling toddler backchat.

From Time • Feb. 1, 2013

As played with beaming verve by Cherise Boothe, Angela Lewis and Nikiya Mathis, these high school girls are a delight to watch, with their freewheeling conversation full of tart backchat and slangy humor.

From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2011