backchat

Example Sentences

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And if you’re a person like my own mother, who would never permit such backchat in her house, mazel tov.

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2022

Writing in the first person as Nikki, he has created a character who peppers the patriarchy with rapid-fire volleys of backchat.

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2019

The summit backchat was no longer – as it had been in June 1994, or at Fontainebleau 10 years before, when Thatcher had swung her handbag – merely about the UK's stubbornness.

From The Guardian • Jun. 28, 2014

It is the individual or group giving the machine a bit of backchat.

From BBC • Oct. 16, 2013

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

From Time • Feb. 1, 2013